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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Configuration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 13, 2023

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Add 'prefix' to Kafka provider properties

When sharing the same Kafka cluster between multiple environments, it is necessary to provide different (unique) topic names for each environment to ensure they are not consuming another environment's data. This is somewhat problematic for the use of migration manager as the environment-specific configuration is then present on external systems and cron task instances.

Ideally a 'prefix' property on the Kafka message provider would be transparently appended to the configured topic names so the environment-specific configuration is in a single location, and the functional configuration of topic names does not need to be modified in each environment.

For example, if we share a Kafka cluster between Dev and Test environments for the 'SYSTEM1' system, we may configure a 'dev_system1' and a 'test_system1' topic which is then specified on the external system and cron task instances.

A preferable implementation would be for the Kafka provider on Dev to have a prefix of 'dev_' defined, and similarly the provider on Test to have a 'test_' prefix defined, and the external system and cron task instance to only reference 'system1' as the topic name.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool
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