Request for Apache Pulsar

[tspannhw]

Please add Apache Pulsar to the mix. Client (Python, Java, Golang, NodeJS) or server.

[Paraphraser]

First off, I want to make it clear that I'm not in charge of anything. I'm just Joe User giving you some feedback which you're free to accept/reject.

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If you look on Dockerhub you'll see that apachepulsar/pulsar and apachepulsar/pulsar-all are only built for amd64. IOTstack is aimed at Raspberry Pi so it needs ARM.

There does seem to be an open issue 12944 asking for this feature. It was opened November 2021 and has quite a few thumbs-ups. Having read to the end (which I suggest you do too), it seems they might be on the cusp of getting somewhere.

One of the posts along the way points to kezhenxu94/pulsar. While it has a reasonable number of pulls, it hasn't been updated in 9 months, whereas the "official" image has been through quite a few evolutions in that time. I don't know how to interpret that.

The thing that gave me a case of instant hives was when I looked at the example docker-compose.yml. My immediate question is "does this thing really need 15 separate containers?" If yes, maybe that explains why they haven't really focused on an ARM variant - it might be biting off a bit more than a Pi can chew. If no, where's the simple example? A lifetime in IT has taught me to be very suspicious when people go for complex out-of-the-box rather than starting simple and working up.

With all that in mind, can I suggest that you:

1. Leave this issue open.

2. Place a watch on issue 12944 and check the Dockerhub repo from time to time.

3. When an ARM image appears:

   • find or develop a simple (as in single-container) docker-compose service definition. If you need help adopting IOTstack conventions I'm happy to do that.
   • give it a whirl on your own system and write some how-to documentation so other people can get started.
   • either prepare a Pull Request or post your service definition here.

[derskythe]

Apache Pulsar

But why this product but not RabbitMQ?