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- What user problem does this solve? Teams need to produce, consume, and trigger workflows from Apache Kafka topics, including share-group queue semantics from orchestrated workflows instead of relying on manual console work, ad hoc scripts, or disconnected schedulers.
- Why would a team adopt this plugin in a workflow? It keeps Apache Kafka steps in the same Kestra flow as upstream preparation, approvals, retries, notifications, and downstream systems.
- What operational/business outcome does it enable? It reduces manual handoffs and fragmented tooling while improving reliability, traceability, and delivery speed for processes that depend on Apache Kafka.
- Provides plugin components under
io.kestra.plugin.kafka. - Includes classes such as
QueueAcknowledgeType,Message,Consume,Produce.
- Full documentation can be found under kestra.io/docs
- Documentation for developing a plugin is included in the Plugin Developer Guide.
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