Send dummy messages to a Kafka topic using Kafkacat

dummy-producer.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
echo -n "Publishing dummy messages: "

while true; do
  echo -n "."
  date=$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
  message="{\"id\": \"$(uuidgen)\", \"created_at\": \"$date\", \"some_key\": \"some value\"}"
  echo $message | kafkacat -P -b 0.0.0.0:9092 -t my_dummy_queue
  sleep 0.8
done

echo