Azure Service Bus Queue and Topic

Question

Hi there,

I'm new to Kubernetes in Azure, and I never used Azure Service Bus. So, my questions are very basic:

1- Why do people use Azure Service Bus Queue and Topic with AKS Pods?

2- Why not use Azure Event Hub with AKS Pods?

Answer 1

@JMN-2253 Thanks for reaching out.

Azure Service Bus Queue and Topic are commonly used with AKS Pods for messaging scenarios where you need to decouple the sender and receiver of a message. For example, if you have a microservices architecture where each service needs to communicate with other services, you can use Service Bus Queue and Topic to send messages between services without the sender and receiver needing to know about each other. This helps to improve the scalability and reliability of your application.

Azure Event Hub is a streaming platform that is designed for high-throughput, real-time data streaming scenarios. While it is possible to use Event Hub with AKS Pods, it is typically used for scenarios where you need to ingest and process large volumes of data in real-time, such as IoT telemetry data or log data from multiple sources. If you are not dealing with high-throughput data streaming scenarios, then Service Bus Queue and Topic may be a better fit for your messaging needs.

To know more about the difference between Asynchronous messaging options you can refer to this architecture document.

Feel free to get back to me if you have any queries or concerns.

Answer 2

Hi Jan,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Q&A!

Basically you can integrate AKS with almost every other service from Azure, including the ones you have mentioned, Azure Service Bus or Azure Event Hub, depending on each other's architecture needs.

If you have any specific question or blocker feel free to raise it here and we will try to address them as much as possible.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

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