typhoon

typhoon

An event bridge for applications and services build on top of NATS.io and Knative Eventing/Serving.

Why

AWS EventBridge is a great service to bridge events between different sources and targets in your enterprise. However, it is not a cloud-native solution and it is not open-source.

It is the goal to create a cloud-native and open-source alternative that works on-premise and in the cloud and that has a focus on enterprise-readyness.

Design

• Event mesh. The system is capable to route events from producers to consumers in hybrid cloud environemts.
• Streaming. The system is capable to stream events from producers to consumers. That means it is capable of replaying events not only queueing them.
• Event bridging. The system is capable to bridge events from different sources to different targets, also transforming them. Furthermore, this should use a declarative approach.
• Scalability. The system is capable to scale horizontally and vertically.
• Resilience. The system is capable to recover from failures.
• Security. The system is capable to secure the communication between producers and consumers.
• Open standards. The system is based on open standards like NATS.io and Knative Eventing.

Overview

Typhoon is built on top of NATS.io and Knative Eventing. It provides a control plane for managing event sources, triggers, and targets.

The accounting should be done via the Operator for NATS Accounting that we provide to configure NATS.io accounts and users.

Sources

• CloudEvents
• HTTP Poller
• Kafka
• Salesforce
• WebHook

Targets

• CloudEvents
• DataDog
• JIRA
• NATS
• Salesforce
• ServiceNow
• Splunk

Installation

Helm can be used to install Typhoon to your Kubernetes cluster.

helm repo add typhoon https://zeiss.github.io/typhoon
helm repo update
helm search repo typhoon

Install Typhoon to your cluster and wait for the deployment to finish.

helm install typhoon typhoon/typhoon --wait

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes v1.28 or newer
• Knative Eventing v1.16 or newer
• Knative Serving v1.16 or newer
• Helm 3.0 or newer

The prerequisites can be installed via the ZEISS Charts.

Installation

Typhoon depends on Knative Eventing and NATS.

Development

You can use minikube to run a local Kubernetes cluster.

sh scripts/setup-minikube.sh

Run the following Makefile target to deploy Typhoon to your local Kubernetes cluster.

make deploy

License

Apache 2.0