Using Kafka instead of spring cloud bus

Question

Let me explain my problem using an example,

• There is a micro service called "notification-service"
• It has 2 instances running in port 8080 and 8081
• We have our Spring cloud config server also running and contain all property files of "notification-service"

When property file get changed, to make it immediately effect to the all running instances, we can use spring-cloud-bus,

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-bus-amqp</artifactId>
    </dependency>

and use postman tool to refresh all instances of "notification-service" at once.

• e.g., localhost:8080/bus/refresh

The thing i want to know is are there any way to do this using kafka instead of spring cloud bus?

Answer 1

Maybe you're looking for this?

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-stream-kafka</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

And it's called Spring Cloud Stream