[KAFKA-10] Kafka deployment on EC2 should be WHIRR based, instead of current contrib/deploy code based solution

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.6
• Component/s: packaging
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Anonymous
• Created: 19/Jul/11 21:32
• Updated: 15/May/20 01:46
• Resolved: 15/May/20 01:46

Description

Apache Whirr is a a set of libraries for running cloud services
http://incubator.apache.org/whirr/

It is desirable that Kafka's integration with EC2 be Whirr based, rather than the code based solution we currently have in contrib/deploy.

The code in contrib/deploy will be deleted in 0.6 release

Issue Links

• duplicates: WHIRR-212 Add Kafka as a service