Learn how Microsoft has created a multi-tenant Kafka cluster in Azure.

1. Thomas Alex
Principal Program Manager
Microsoft

2.  Introduction
 Goals
 Solution
 Tenant model
 Deployment architecture
 Open Discussion

3.  Siphon: Enterprise Data
Bus
 Near real-time
 Compliant
 No data dead-ends
 Hyper scale
 Reliable
 Network effects
8 million
EVENTS PER SECOND PEAK INGRESS
800 TB (10 GB per Sec)
INGRESS PER DAY
1,800
PRODUCTION KAFKA BROKERS
450
TOPICS
15 Sec
99th PERCENTILE LATENCY

4. SDK Collector
Siphon
connector
API
Management UI
Metadata dB

5.  Customer: Major Car Manufacturer
 Scenario: Connected Car Telematics
 Data producers
 Millions of cars
 Routed via cloud gateway to Siphon endpoint
 Data consumers
 Spark streaming applications
 Siphon compute forwards data to blob storage

6. UI
Backend
Source
systems
Destination
systems
Data
producers
• Send data
reliably
Customers
• Manage capacity
• Manage
tenant/topic/subscription
• Pay for the service
Data
consumers
• Consume
data in
NRT
Service owners
• Manage service
with SLA

7.  Managed service
 Availability
 Reliability
 Isolation
 Low cost
 Self-service
 Regulatory Compliance
 Data sharing

8. Instance
Instance
Instance
Customer A
Customer B
Customer C
Multiple instances
Single tenant per instance

9. Customer A
Customer B
Customer C
Single instance
Multiple tenant per instance
Instance

10. Customer A
Customer B
Customer C
Multiple instances
Multiple tenant per instance
Instance
Instance

11. Siphon Deployment Unit
• Ingress service (Collector)
• Kafka cluster
• Connector (HLC)
• Monitoring
Management Service
• Metadata
• Self-serve API
• Self-serve UI
Collector HLC
APIMetadata dB

12.  Tenant
 Principals (administrators, users)
 Resources
 Endpoint
 Topics
 Subscriptions
 Quota
 Storage capacity
 Throughput
 Threshold for auto-approval
 Default limits
 Topic capacity
 Retention
 Partitions
Tenant 3
Traffic
Manager 3
Tenant 2
Traffic
Manager 2
Siphon DU 1
Collector HLC
Siphon DU 2
Collector HLC
Siphon DU 3
Collector HLC
Tenant 1
Traffic
Manager 1

13.  Scalability
 Underlying infra is IaaS
 Isolation
 Availability and Latency SLA
 Regulatory compliance guarantees
 Enterprise cloud depends on data security & privacy
 Regulatory framework for certifications e.g. SOC, FEDRAMP, HIPAA
 Data sharing
 Manageability
 Provisioning
 Monitoring
 Maintainability

14.  Comments / Feedback
 https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomalex/
 tomalex@microsoft.com

15.  Compliance regions
 North America
 South America
 Europe
 Asia Pacific
 Go Local
 Australia
 Canada
 India
 Japan
 United Kingdom
 Sovereign
 Germany
 China
 Government

16.  Self-service
 Tenant creation & management
 Topic creation & management
 Topic health & data preview
 Subscription creation & management
 AuthN
 Azure AD based for Self-service API & UI
 Cert based for data producers and consumers
 AuthZ
 Siphon Metadata used to authorize provisioning & management (tenants, topics, etc.)
 Kafka ACLs for topic level access control
 Throttling
 EventServer throttles based on quota limit
 Monitoring
 Operational metrics in a single system (MDM) for monitoring and alerting
 Data quality
 Audit Trail system for e2e latency and completeness monitoring