Available Broker types¶
The following broker types are available for use with Knative Eventing.
Channel-based broker¶
Knative Eventing provides a Channel based Broker implementation that uses Channels for event routing.
Before you can use the Channel based Broker, you must install a Channel implementation.
Alternative broker implementations¶
In the Knative Eventing ecosystem, alternative Broker implementations are welcome as long as they respect the Broker specifications.
The following is a list of Brokers provided by the community or vendors:
Knative Broker for Apache Kafka¶
This Broker implementation uses Apache Kafka as its backing technology. For more information, see the Knative Broker for Apache Kafka documentation.