Hi Kafka Devs, I created KIP-80 to add Kafka REST Server to Kafka Repository.
There are already open-source alternatives are available. But we would like to add REST server that many users ask for under Apache Kafka repo. Many data Infra tools comes up with Rest Interface. It is useful to have inbuilt Rest API support for Produce, Consume messages and admin interface for integrating with external management and provisioning tools.This will also allow the maintenance of REST server and adding new features makes it easy because apache community. The KIP wiki is the following: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- 80%3A+Kafka+Rest+Server Your comments and feedback are welcome. Thanks, Manikumar
