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Announcing Preview of the Azure Functions Kafka extension

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Anirudh Garg
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Apr 28, 2020
We're excited to announce today the preview of the Kafka Extension for Azure Functions. With this new extension you can now have functions trigger in response to messages in Kafka Topics, or w...
Updated Aug 27, 2020
Version 14.0
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FatimaMookhtiar
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May 13, 2020

There's a few things missing in the steps which I'd like to highlight as might help others, they are below:-

1. I needed to have the librdkafka dlls present in the bin folder to get it working, else I kept getting a runtime exception complaining that it couldn't find the dll. To get it I launched the extensions.csproj and installed the nuget package (https://www.nuget.org/packages/librdkafka.redist/) . This then gave me access to the dlls, which I copied into the bin folder of the functionApp. It then worked fine!

 

2. Also a small tweak to the readme, you need to add --package to it. 

$ func extensions install --package Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Kafka --version 2.0.0-beta

 3. I also renamed the local in pom.xml to something else to get rid of the warning. 

<repository>
    <id>extensions</id>
    <url>file://${project.basedir}/src/repo</url>
</repository>

 Is there any specific timeline when this might move from Preview to a stable version? Thanks, Fatima.