Hi all, We are super excited to share that StreamNative and OVHcloud have just open-sourced the Kafka-on-Pulsar (a.k.a KoP) protocol handler today. KoP is a protocol handler that handles the Kafka 2.0+ protocol. It can be installed to your Pulsar brokers (2.5.0 or newer version) to enable native Kafka protocol support. By adding the KoP protocol hander to your existing Pulsar cluster, you can now migrate your existing Kafka applications and services to Pulsar without modifying the code.
Now you can use one Pulsar cluster to support both use cases. For example, you can write a serverless Pulsar Function to process events produced by Kafka clients. The source code is available at https://github.com/streamnative/kop. You are welcome to download and try it out! If you have encountered any issues, feel free to reach out to Pierre Zemb, Jia Zhai and me via email or slack channel. You can also find us at the `kop` channel on Slack. Issues and pull requests are super welcome! Pierre and I are also co-hosting a live webinar about KoP next Tuesday (March 31st) at 10 AM PST / 6 PM CET. If you are interested in hanging out with us online, sign yourself up - https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9115851124625/WN_l_i-3ekDSg6PwPFn7tqRvA Blog post: https://streamnative.io/blog/tech/2020-03-24-bring-native-kafka-protocol-support-to-apache-pulsar/ - Sijie
