kafka-rust/kafka-rust

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1448 stars · 150 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Rust client library for Apache Kafka providing producer and consumer APIs with offset management and TLS support via rustls. It is a crates.io crate compatible with Kafka versions 0.8.2 through 3.1.0.

Use cases

• produce messages to kafka from rust
• consume kafka topics in a rust application
• build a rust event streaming pipeline with kafka
• connect to kafka with TLS from rust
• manage consumer group offsets in rust

When to choose

• you need a pure-Rust Kafka client without OpenSSL dependencies
• you want producer/consumer APIs with group offset management in Rust
• you need TLS support via rustls for portable cross-compilation

When to avoid

• you need full feature parity with the newest Kafka protocol versions
• you need a battle-tested client with large community support like librdkafka-based clients
• you require Kafka 0.9+ features not yet implemented

Facets

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message-queue serialization http-client microservices backend developer-tools rust cross-platform kafka kafka-client event-streaming rustls producer-consumer messaging

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