Kaoto - The Integration Designer for Apache Camel

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Kaoto

Kaoto is a visual editor for Apache Camel integrations. It offers support in creating and editing Camel Routes, Kamelets and Pipes. Kaoto also has a built-in catalog with available Camel components, Enterprise Integration Patterns and Kamelets provided by the Apache Camel community.

Have a quick look at our online demo instance: https://kaotoio.github.io/kaoto/

Kaoto operator

The Kubernetes operator that manages Kaoto instance within the Kubernetes clusters.

Kubernetes resources

Multiresource yaml files to deploy to plain kubernetes.

Install Kaoto

Plain Kubernetes (Minikube)

• Install and run a Minikube instance with ingress addon enabled.
• Install Kaoto from the multi-resource yaml kubectl apply -k https://github.com/KaotoIO/kaoto-operator/config/standalone
  • this will create kaoto-system namespace and install Kaoto Operator
• Create sample Kaoto CR kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KaotoIO/kaoto-operator/main/config/samples/designer.yaml
• Waith the the ingrees admits the endoint

  NAME       PHASE   ENDPOINT
  designer   Ready   http://192.168.49.2/designer/
  

• Kaoto should be accessible at http:/$(minikube ip)/designer

Using the Operator

• Clone kaoto-operator repository
• Run make deploy which creates kaoto-system project and deploy all necessary resources
• Deploy Kaoto Custom Resource sample: kubectl apply -f config/samples/designer.yaml

Local development

Run Operator inside the cluster

1. Start minikube with ingress controller enabled: minikube start --addons ingress
2. Point docker to minikube internal registry: eval $(minikube -p minikube docker-env)
3. Build the Operator: make build
4. Build the Operator Image: make docker-build
5. Deploy Operator: make deploy
6. Create sample Kaoto CR: kubectl apply -f config/samples/designer.yaml
7. (Optional) Undeploy everything: make undeploy

Run locally outside the cluster

1. Start minikube win ingress controller enabled: minikube start --addons ingress
2. Run operator locally: make run/local
3. Create sample Kaoto CR: kubectl apply -f config/samples/designer.yaml
4. (Optional) Undeploy Kaoto: kubectl delete kaoto kaoto-demo