Waterstream documentation

Waterstream is a scalable MQTT broker built atop of Kafka. This ensures best possible integration between IoT applications and high-throughput stream processing in Kafka. Supports both 3.X and 5.0 versions of MQTT protocol.

Contents:

• Waterstream Quick Start
  • Prerequisites
  • Start dependencies
  • Create Kafka topics
  • Start Waterstream
• Docker Compose Quick Start
  • Prerequisites
  • Stack overview
  • Start the stack
  • docker-compose.yml
  • Test the setup
• Waterstream Quick Start with the Confluent Platform
  • Prerequisites
  • Start dependencies
  • Create Kafka topics
  • Start Waterstream
• Waterstream Quick Start with Azure Event Hubs
  • Prerequisites
  • Create Azure resources
  • Event Hubs plan vs Waterstream functionality
  • Run Waterstream with Event Hubs
  • Verify and smoke test
  • Teardown
  • Known limitations and operational notes
• Waterstream Deployment Overview
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Terraform with ConfluentCloud
  • GCP Terraform
  • Kubernetes Terraform
  • Local playground - docker-compose
• Waterstream Configuration
  • Docker image
  • Essential configuration parameters
  • MQTT to Kafka topic mapping (deprecated)
  • Kafka message key (deprecated)
  • MQTT to Kafka (topic + key) mapping rules (new)
  • Authorization rules
  • Topics creation
  • Example script for running Waterstream
• Waterstream Features
  • (Experimental) Start subscription from the specified timestamp
  • (Experimental) Validate messages with the Confluent Schema Registry
• Waterstream Bridge Mode
  • Configuration
  • Retained messages handling
• Waterstream MQTT v5 Support
  • Supported features
• Waterstream Change Log
  • 1.6.X
  • 1.5.X
  • 1.4.X
  • 1.3.X
  • 1.2.X
• Alternatives to Kafka
  • Azure Event Hubs

Indices and tables

• Index

• Search Page