About Brokers¶
Brokers are Kubernetes custom resources that define an event mesh for collecting a pool of events. Brokers provide a discoverable endpoint for event ingress, and use Triggers for event delivery. Event producers can send events to a broker by POSTing the event.
Event delivery¶
Event delivery mechanics are an implementation detail that depend on the configured Broker class. Using Brokers and Triggers abstracts the details of event routing from the event producer and event consumer.
Advanced use cases¶
For most use cases, a single Broker per namespace is sufficient, but there are several use cases where multiple Brokers can simplify architecture. For example, separate Brokers for events containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and non-PII events can simplify audit and access control rules.
Next steps¶
- Create a Broker.
- Configure default Broker ConfigMap settings.