| This plugin publishes gerrit stream events to an Apache Kafka topic. |
| |
| It also provides a Kafka-based implementation of a generic |
| [Events Broker Api](https://github.com/GerritForge/events-broker) which can be used by |
| Gerrit and other plugins. |
| |
| Use-cases |
| ========= |
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| CI/CD Validation |
| ---------------- |
| |
| Gerrit stream events can be published to the internal network where other subscribers |
| can trigger automated jobs (e.g. CI/CD validation) for fetching the changes and validating |
| them through build and testing. |
| |
| __NOTE__: This use-case would require a CI/CD system (e.g. Jenkins, Zuul or other) and |
| the development of a Kafka-based subscriber to receive the event and trigger the build. |
| |
| Events replication |
| ------------------ |
| |
| Multiple Gerrit masters in a multi-site setup can be informed on the stream events |
| happening on every node thanks to the notification to a Kafka pub/sub topic. |
| |
| __NOTE__: This use-case would require the [multi-site plugin](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/multi-site) |
| on each of the Gerrit masters that are part of the same multi-site cluster. |
