Installing and maintaining Event Gateways

Install, configure, and upgrade your Event Gateway.

Planning your Event Gateway deployment
Decide the Event Gateway deployment method, how many gateways you require, review resource requirements, and plan your network configuration.
Installing an operator-managed Event Gateway
Install the Event Endpoint Management operator and an operator-managed Event Gateway.
Installing the Event Gateway as a Kubernetes Deployment
Install an Event Gateway as a Kubernetes Deployment.
Installing the Event Gateway as a Docker container
Install an Event Gateway as a Docker container in your container environment.
Verifying your Event Gateway installation
To test your Event Gateway, create a topic and verify that a Kafka client application can access it as follows.
Advanced Event Gateway configuration
Configure environment variables, security, and performance settings.
Event Gateway network configuration
Configure network policies, ingress, and egress settings.
Exporting Event Gateway metrics and traces with OpenTelemetry
Configure OpenTelemetry (OTEL) to export metrics from your Event Gateway.
Upgrading Event Gateways
How to upgrade your Event Gateway instances.
Uninstalling Event Gateways
How to safely uninstall an Event Gateway instance.
Configuring Event Gateways for applications
For applications to be able to subscribe to multiple topics, you must update existing Event Gateways to support multi-topic subscriptions.
Event Gateways properties reference
Reference page for all the Event Gateway properties that you can configure.