# salt.returners.kafka_return

Return data to a Kafka topic

maintainer:

  Justin Desilets (justin.desilets@gmail.com)

maturity:

  20181119

depends:

  confluent-kafka

platform:

  all

To enable this returner install confluent-kafka and enable the following settings in the minion config:

> returner.kafka.bootstrap:

>   - "server1:9092"

>   - "server2:9092"

>   - "server3:9092"

> returner.kafka.topic: 'topic'

To use the kafka returner, append --return kafka to the Salt command, eg;

> salt '*' test.ping --return kafka

salt.returners.kafka_return.returner(ret)

  Return information to a Kafka server