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Opportunities to be Investigated

Deployment of Kafka - does adopting a component such as Strimzi add any value in terms of configurability etc?

Security: evolving ONAP towards supporting OAuth 2 natively would allow every component including Kafka to provide authentication. Requires a broader analysis.

Message router API: the principles for having a technology agnostic lightweight message API are good. However these days there are more options in the open source ecosystem which support a broader range of the Kafka semantics - should we consider aligning with one of those:

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TODO: create a checklist for selection

Native broker API: for low-latency, high volume use cases, how do we securely expose native Kafka APIs?

HV-VES supports reading / writing directly from Kafka: https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-dcaegen2/en/latest/sections/services/ves-hv/architecture.html

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Data Router

Current State

Challenges to be addressed

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