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Zilla helps develop and manage event-driven applications and services. It is a lightweight yet feature-rich proxy with first-class support forHTTP,SSE,gRPC,MQTT, andKafka protocols.

UseZilla as a:

• Service sidecar — deployed alongside a service to enforce authentication, validate schemas, gather metrics, and terminate TLS.
• Kafka API gateway — fronting Apache Kafka, enabling web apps, IoT clients, and non-Kafka microservices to directly consume and produce data streams via their own native protocols.

Zilla is stateless, declaratively configured, and has no external dependencies. The fastest way to get started is to follow the hostedQuickstart.

Single-node and cluster deployment options are available.

Homebrew

brew tap aklivity/tap brew install zillazilla start -ve -c ./zilla.yaml

Docker

docker pull ghcr.io/aklivity/zilladocker run ghcr.io/aklivity/zilla:latest start -v

Helm

helm install zilla oci://ghcr.io/aklivity/charts/zilla --namespace zilla --create-namespace --wait \--values values.yaml \--set-file zilla\\.yaml=zilla.yaml

• Support forOpenAPI andAsyncAPI specifications for configuration and/or validation enforcement.
• Integrations with external schema registries, such asApicurio andKarapace, for a variety of data formats, includingJSON,avro, andprotobuf.
• Support for authorization viaJWT, includingcontinous authorization forSSE.
• Integrations with standard observability tools, includingPrometheus andOpenTelemetry, for logging and metrics.

• Zilla Documentation: Guides, tutorials and references to help understand how to use Zilla and configure it for your use case.
• Product Roadmap: Check out our plan for upcoming releases.
• Zilla Examples: A collection of pre-canned Zilla feature demos.
• Eventful Petstore Demo: See Zilla make the OpenAPI/Swagger Petstore service event-driven by mapping it onto Kafka in just a few lines of YAML.
• Taxi Demo: A demo of a taxi-based IoT deployment with Zilla, Kafka, OpenAPIs and AsyncAPIs.

• Bring your own REST APIs for Apache Kafka: Zilla enables application-specific REST APIs. See how it's not just another Kafka-REST proxy.
• Modern Eventing with CQRS, Redpanda and Zilla: Learn about the event-driven nature of CQRS, common challenges while implementing it, and how Zilla solves them with Redpanda.
• End-to-end Streaming Between gRPC Services via Kafka: Learn how to integrate gRPC with Kafka event streaming; securely, reliably and scalably.
• Zilla Hails a Taxi: IoT telemetry at scale? MQTT, Zilla, and Kafka can make it happen.

• Community Slack: Join technical discussions, ask questions, and meet other users!
• GitHub Issues: Report bugs or issues with Zilla.
• Contact Us: Submit non-techinal questions and inquiries.

Looking to contribute to Zilla? Check out theContributing to Zilla guide.✨We value all contributions, whether source code, documentation, bug reports, feature requests or feedback!

Zilla is made available under theAklivity Community License. This is an open source-derived license that gives you the freedom to deploy, modify and run Zilla as you see fit, as long as you are not turning into a standalone commercialized “Zilla-as-a-service” offering. Running Zilla in the cloud for your own workloads, production or not, is completely fine.

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