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JIRA: KAFKA-3294 [Change the link from KAFKA-1 to your own ticket] 

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The goal is to add Kafka Rest Server/Proxy to Kafka Repository. This will allow any language/tool that
can work with HTTP to produce and consume messages, and perform administrative actions with Kafka service.

Why add Kafka Rest Server/Proxy to Kafka?

There are already some open-source REST proxies are available. Some are specific to a particular user cases.
Confluent REST Proxy got comprehensive interface. We want to add Kafka Rest Server to Kafka for the following reasons.

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• This KIP only proposes additions. There should be no compatibility issues.

  
  

Rejected Alternatives

 Make Kafka Rest Server an external third-party tool:

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