{"id":4556,"date":"2021-12-17T00:48:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2021-12-17T01:23:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T01:23:47","slug":"event-endpoint-management-demo-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4556","title":{"rendered":"Event Endpoint Management “demo in a box”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post, I’ll share how you can get your own Event Endpoint Management demo instance with just seven minutes of work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Seven minutes of hands-on-keyboard time… there is a lot of waiting-for-stuff-to-run time, but it doesn’t sound so impressive if I include waiting time!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Why should you use this?<\/h3>\n

The best way to learn about something new is to get hands-on and play with it.<\/p>\n

With something like Event Endpoint Management<\/a>, to start kicking the tyres you need something to put in it. It starts getting interesting to play with once you have a few streams of events to publish and manage with it. You can really start to see the developer experience that it enables once you have a developer portal populated with a variety of real event sources.<\/p>\n

But setting all of that up (creating a Kafka cluster, creating a bunch of Kafka topics, starting applications to produce messages to those topics, writing documentation describing the schemas of those messages, creating Kafka credentials and configuring the gateway with them, etc.) takes a little effort.<\/p>\n

The idea of giving you this “demo in a box<\/strong>” is to do all of that for you, so you can dive straight in to playing with it – with hardly any up-front effort.<\/p>\n

What do you get?<\/h3>\n

Before I jump into showing you how to set it up for yourself, let me show you what you’ll get.<\/p>\n