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Version: 8.6

Network ports

The broker cluster sits behind the gateway, which handles all requests (via REST and gRPC servers) from clients/workers and forwards events to brokers.

To communicate with clients/workers, the gateway will start two different ports to communicate via its REST API (default port 8080) and gRPC (default port 26500). These are respectively controlled via server.port: 8080 (REST) and zeebe.gateway.network.port: 26500 (gRPC).

Additionally, it will need to communicate with other nodes (mostly brokers) in the cluster (default port 26502), configured via zeebe.gateway.cluster.port: 26502.

To join the cluster, it will also need at least one initial contact point, typically a broker, configured via zeebe.gateway.cluster.initialContactPoints: [127.0.0.1:26502].

note

You can use all broker connections instead of one to make the startup process of the Zeebe Gateway more resilient.

The relevant configuration settings are:

Config file
    server:
      port: 8080 # REST
    zeebe:
      gateway:
        network:
          port: 26500 # gRPC
        cluster:
          port: 26502
          initialContactPoints: [127.0.0.1:26502]


Environment Variables
  SERVER_PORT = 8080
  ZEEBE_GATEWAY_NETWORK_PORT = 26500
  ZEEBE_GATEWAY_CLUSTER_PORT = 26502
  ZEEBE_GATEWAY_CLUSTER_INITIALCONTACTPOINTS = 127.0.0.1:26502