PROFILES.md

Profiles

Profiles live under config/profiles/ and are intended to be runnable, copy/paste configurations.

Profile	Kafka Transport	OPA RBAC	Sink	Transform	Metrics	Primary Use
bench-plaintext.properties	PLAINTEXT :9092	No	Kafka (String)	NOOP	Prometheus	Peak throughput baselines
bench-mtls.properties	mTLS/SSL :9093	No	Kafka (String)	NOOP	Prometheus	Throughput with encryption
secure-durable-mtls-opa.properties	mTLS/SSL :9093	Yes	Kafka (String)	NOOP	Prometheus	“Enterprise posture” run
avro-schema-registry.properties	PLAINTEXT :9092	No	Kafka (Avro)	NOOP	Prometheus	Schema Registry + Avro
mongodb-vector.properties	N/A (source synthetic by default)	Optional	MongoDB	AI_ENRICHMENT	Prometheus	Vector write path smoke test
metrics-datadog.properties	PLAINTEXT :9092	No	Kafka (String)	NOOP	Datadog	Swap Prom/Grafana for DD

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Configuration Profiles (config/profiles)

Profile	Purpose	Security	Kafka	OPA	DLQ	Observability
01-synthetic-bench.properties	Max throughput benchmark	❌	PLAINTEXT	❌	❌	✅
02-opa-secure.properties	Authorization testing	❌	PLAINTEXT	✅	❌	✅
03-mtls-kafka.properties	mTLS validation	✅	SSL	❌	❌	✅
04-dlq-durable.properties	Failure handling	❌	PLAINTEXT	❌	✅	✅
05-avro-schema.properties	Schema Registry / Avro	❌	PLAINTEXT	❌	❌	❌
06-mongodb-vector.properties	MongoDB Vector sink	❌	N/A	❌	❌	❌
07-transforms.properties	Transform validation	❌	DEVNULL	❌	❌	❌
08-full-enterprise.properties	Production-grade pipeline	✅	SSL	✅	✅	✅

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Running a profile

Example: .\gradlew.bat :streamkernel-app:run "-Dsk.config.path=C:\workspace\StreamKernel\config\profiles\01_synthetic-bench.properties"