[KAFKA-13671] Power (ppc64le) support for kafka

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0
• Component/s: build
• Assignee: Mickael Maison
• Reporter: Abhijit
• Created: 16/Feb/22 14:41
• Updated: 08/Mar/22 17:19
• Resolved: 07/Mar/22 09:19

Description

Support for Power architecture (ppc64le) for apache kafka.

What is IBM Power architecture?
It is a RISC architecture and IBM has recently made its ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) opensource and in doing so, they have significantly contributed back to the opensource community at large. Many of the pioneers of banking and HPC industries today run on ppc64le architecture.

As an ongoing effort to enable open-source projects where Power architecture can add value, we are trying to enable kafka on Power.

IBM has already donated a ppc64le ubuntu VM to the community to be added to the jenkins cluster for Apache Kafka builds. The VM spec has been reviewed in the community and deemed suitable for kafka builds. 

Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-22612

I can help with the work needed to add new jenkins job for Power.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11833