diff --git a/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka/Dockerfile b/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka/Dockerfile
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+FROM apache/kafka:3.7.1
+
+USER root
+
+RUN apk update && \
+  apk add git=2.43.5-r0 python3=3.11.10-r0 python3-dev=3.11.10-r0 py3-pip=23.3.1-r0 gcc=13.2.1_git20231014-r0 g++=13.2.1_git20231014-r0 librdkafka-dev=2.3.0-r1
+
+USER appuser
+
+COPY --chown=appuser "consumer.py" "producer.py" "/home/appuser/"
+
+WORKDIR "/home/appuser"
+
+RUN python3 -m venv "/home/appuser/venv" && \
+  . "/home/appuser/venv/bin/activate" && \
+  pip install confluent_kafka==2.3.0 GitPython==3.1.43 requests==2.32.3 && \
+  git clone "https://github.com/SUSE/susemanager-ci"
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "-c", "/etc/kafka/docker/run & \
+  /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --if-not-exists --topic sle_mu_43 --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 && \
+  . /home/appuser/venv/bin/activate && \
+  python3 consumer.py" \
+]
diff --git a/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka/README.md b/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka/README.md
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+# Kafka automation concept
+
+Messaging system to automate manual tasks with SUSE internal services via API.
+
+## Requirements
+
+### Host
+
+Tested on the SLE 15 SP6 host deployed in a fully trusted environment with the following packages installed:
+* `docker` package from [Virtualization repository](https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/containers/15.6/).
+
+### Variables
+
+The following environment variables need to be exported on the container's host:
+* [`JENKINS_API_TOKEN`](https://ci.suse.de/user/manager/configure).
+* [`SLACK_API_URL_APPENDIX`](https://app.slack.com/client/T02863RC2AC/platform) (_in the form of `"T02863RC2AC/<alphanumeric data>/<alphanumeric data>"`_).
+
+### Networking
+
+The following websites needs to be resolvable within the docker container network:
+* `https://smelt.suse.de`
+* `https://hooks.slack.com`
+* `https://ci.suse.de`
+* `https://github.com`
+
+## Usage
+
+### Building and Running
+
+Being in the `susemanager-ci/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka` catalog, build `kafka` container:
+
+```bash
+docker build . --tag "kafka"
+```
+
+With exported `JENKINS_API_TOKEN` and `SLACK_API_URL_APPENDIX`, run `kafka` container:
+
+```bash
+docker run --name "kafka" --env JENKINS_API_TOKEN=${JENKINS_API_TOKEN} --env SLACK_API_URL_APPENDIX=${SLACK_API_URL_APPENDIX} --network "host" kafka
+```
+
+### Topics Available
+
+* `sle_mu_43`:
+  1. Pulls the latest [MU requests](https://smelt.suse.de/overview/) to be accepted and generates json based on the latest [susemanager-ci](https://github.com/SUSE/susemanager-ci/tree/master) scripts.
+  2. Start a [new manager-4.3-qe-sle-update pipeline](https://ci.suse.de/view/Manager/view/Manager-4.3/job/manager-4.3-qe-sle-update-NUE/) and monitors the status running.
+  3. Send message to the dedicated Slack channel [andy-test](https://app.slack.com/client/T02863RC2AC/C033KJKDF9V) informing about the status.
+
+  ⚠️ _Producing script should be integrated to the https://smelt.suse.de site, at the moment it is sending requests from container_.
+
+### Debugging
+
+Alongside kafka logging, built-in logger should capture API requests to external services with the corresponding return codes and return messages:
+
+```bash
+docker logs "kafka"
+```
+
+## Additional resources
+
+* [SLE MU pipeline automation concept](https://github.com/SUSE/spacewalk/issues/24966).
+* [SLE Maintenance updates document](https://confluence.suse.com/display/SUSEMANAGER/QE+SLE+Maintenance+Updates).
+
diff --git a/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka/consumer.py b/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka/consumer.py
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+
+import functools
+import json
+import logging
+import os
+import subprocess
+import time
+import dataclasses
+
+import confluent_kafka
+import git
+import requests
+
+import producer
+
+
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=logging.INFO,
+    format='[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s [KAFKA CONSUMER]: %(message)s'
+)
+
+
+class APIClients:
+    authorization_parameters: tuple = ('manager', os.getenv('JENKINS_API_TOKEN'))
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def log_http_requests(request):
+        @functools.wraps(request)
+        def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
+            response = request(self, *args, **kwargs)
+            logging.info(f"{request.__name__.upper()} {args[0]}, STATUS: {response.status_code}")
+            if response.status_code not in (200, 201):
+                logging.error(f"{response.content}")
+            return response
+        return wrapper
+
+    @log_http_requests
+    def get(self, endpoint: str):
+        return requests.get(endpoint, auth=self.authorization_parameters, verify=False, timeout=10)
+
+    @log_http_requests
+    def post(self, endpoint: str, params=None, data=None):
+        if endpoint.startswith('https://hooks.slack.com'):
+            return requests.post(endpoint, headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, data=json.dumps(data), timeout=10)
+        return requests.post(endpoint, auth=self.authorization_parameters, params=params, verify=False, timeout=10)
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class KafkaConsumer:
+    consumer = confluent_kafka.Consumer({
+        'bootstrap.servers': 'localhost:9092',
+        'group.id': 'jenkins_pipelines',
+        'auto.offset.reset': 'earliest',
+        'enable.auto.commit': False,
+        'max.poll.interval.ms': 86400000
+    })
+    kafka_topic = 'sle_mu_43'
+    api_clients = APIClients()
+
+    def __post_init__(self) -> None:
+        self.consumer.subscribe([self.kafka_topic])
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def pull_latest_susemanager_ci():
+        susemanager_ci_repository = git.Repo('/home/appuser/susemanager-ci')
+        try:
+            susemanager_ci_repository.remotes.origin.pull()
+        except git.exc.GitError as stderr:
+            logging.warning(f"Error during git pull on susemanager-ci repository: {stderr}")
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def generate_custom_repositories(incidents: dict):
+        incident_numbers = ','.join(
+            str(incident['incident']['incident_id'])
+            for incident in incidents['data']
+        )
+        try:
+            subprocess.run(
+                [
+                    "python3",
+                    "susemanager-ci/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/json_generator/maintenance_json_generator.py",
+                    "-i", incident_numbers
+                ],
+                check=True
+            )
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+            susemanager_ci_latest_commit = git.Repo('/home/appuser/susemanager-ci').head.commit
+            logging.error(f"Cannot generate JSON file on the {susemanager_ci_latest_commit} commit of susemanager-ci repository with {incident_numbers} MI IDs")
+
+
+    def run_jenkins_pipeline(self) -> int | None:
+        instances_involved = ['server', 'proxy', 'sle15sp4_client', 'sle15sp4_minion']
+        with open('custom_repositories.json', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as custom_repositories:
+            custom_repositories_formatted = json.dumps(
+                {
+                    key: value for key, value in json.load(custom_repositories).items()
+                    if key in instances_involved
+                },
+                indent=4
+            )
+        build_parameters = {
+            'cucumber_gitrepo': 'https://github.com/SUSE/spacewalk.git',
+            'cucumber_ref': 'Manager-4.3',
+            'tf_file': 'susemanager-ci/terracumber_config/tf_files/SUSEManager-4.3-SLE-update-NUE.tf',
+            'sumaform_gitrepo': 'https://github.com/uyuni-project/sumaform.git',
+            'sumaform_ref': 'master',
+            'sumaform_backend': 'libvirt',
+            'terraform_bin': '/usr/bin/terraform',
+            'terraform_bin_plugins': '/usr/bin',
+            'terraform_parallelism': '',
+            'terracumber_gitrepo': 'https://github.com/uyuni-project/terracumber.git',
+            'terracumber_ref': 'master',
+            'minions_to_run': 'sles15sp4_minion',
+            'use_previous_terraform_state': 'false',
+            'must_deploy': 'true',
+            'must_run_core': 'true',
+            'must_sync': 'true',
+            'enable_proxy_stages': 'true',
+            'enable_client_stages': 'true',
+            'must_add_MU_repositories': 'true',
+            'must_add_non_MU_repositories': 'true',
+            'must_add_keys': 'true',
+            'must_create_bootstrap_repos': 'true',
+            'must_boot_node': 'true',
+            'must_run_tests': 'true',
+            'must_run_containerization_tests': 'false',
+            'confirm_before_continue': 'false',
+            'custom_repositories': custom_repositories_formatted
+        }
+
+        request = self.api_clients.post(
+            'https://ci.suse.de/job/manager-4.3-qe-sle-update-NUE/buildWithParameters',
+            params=build_parameters
+        )
+
+        if request.status_code == 201:
+            time.sleep(10)  # to avoid "In the quiet period. Expires in <10 sec"
+            request = self.api_clients.get(f"{request.headers['Location']}/api/json")
+            response = request.json()
+            try:
+                build_number = response['executable']['number']
+                os.rename('custom_repositories.json', f'custom_repositories_{build_number}.json')
+                return build_number
+            except KeyError:
+                logging.error(f"Build number {build_number} was not found in the currently running pipelines, latest output: {response['why']}. Please check if someone else is working on the pipeline.")
+                return None
+        if request.status_code == 431:
+            logging.error(f'Request is too big, perhaps too many RRs to be accepted generated big JSON, run pipeline manually using generated custom_repositories.json in {os.getcwd()}')
+        return None
+
+    def pipeline_enabled(self) -> bool:
+        return not self.api_clients.get(f'https://ci.suse.de/job/manager-4.3-qe-sle-update-NUE/api/json').json()['color'] == 'disabled'
+
+    def build_status(self, build_number: int) -> str:
+        request = self.api_clients.get(f'https://ci.suse.de/job/manager-4.3-qe-sle-update-NUE/{build_number}/api/json')
+        response = request.json()
+        if response['inProgress']:
+            return 'INPROGRESS'
+        return response['result']
+
+    def send_message_slack(self, incidents: dict, build_number: int, status: str) -> None:
+        mu_requests = [
+            f"https://build.suse.de/request/show/{incident['request_id']}"
+            for incident in incidents['data']
+        ]
+        message = {
+            'message': f'SLE MU pipeline https://ci.suse.de/job/manager-4.3-qe-sle-update-NUE/{build_number} has status: {status} with the following requests: {mu_requests}'
+        }
+        self.api_clients.post(
+            f"https://hooks.slack.com/triggers/{os.getenv('SLACK_API_URL_APPENDIX')}",
+            data=message
+        )
+
+    def listen(self) -> None:
+        build_number: None | int = None
+        try:
+            while True:
+                time.sleep(300)
+                if self.pipeline_enabled() or build_number:
+                    if build_number:
+                        status = self.build_status(build_number)
+                        logging.info(f'Pipeline build {build_number} STATUS: {status}')
+                        if status != 'INPROGRESS':
+                            self.send_message_slack(incidents, build_number, status)
+                            build_number = None
+                    else:
+                        message = self.consumer.poll(timeout=1.0)
+                        if message is None:
+                            producer.produce()
+                        else:
+                            try:
+                                incidents = json.loads(message.value().decode('utf-8'))
+                            except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+                                logging.error(f'Could not decode kafka message: {message.value()}')
+                                raise
+                            if incidents["recordsFiltered"] > 0:
+                                self.pull_latest_susemanager_ci()
+                                self.generate_custom_repositories(incidents)
+                                build_number = self.run_jenkins_pipeline()
+                            self.consumer.commit(message)
+                else:
+                    logging.info('Pipeline disabled')
+        except:
+            self.consumer.close()
+            raise
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    KafkaConsumer().listen()
+
diff --git a/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka/producer.py b/jenkins_pipelines/scripts/kafka/producer.py
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+import confluent_kafka
+import requests
+
+
+def produce():
+    kafka_broker = 'localhost:9092'
+    kafka_topic = 'sle_mu_43'
+    smelt_testing_site = 'https://smelt.suse.de/api/v1/overview/testing/?format=datatables&draw=7&columns%5B0%5D%5Bdata%5D=category&columns%5B0%5D%5Bname%5D=category.id&columns%5B0%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=true&columns%5B0%5D%5Borderable%5D=true&columns%5B0%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B0%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B1%5D%5Bdata%5D=request_id&columns%5B1%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B1%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=false&columns%5B1%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B1%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B1%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B2%5D%5Bdata%5D=request_id&columns%5B2%5D%5Bname%5D=request_id%2C%20incident.incident_id&columns%5B2%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=true&columns%5B2%5D%5Borderable%5D=true&columns%5B2%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B2%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B3%5D%5Bdata%5D=comments_exists&columns%5B3%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B3%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=false&columns%5B3%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B3%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B3%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B4%5D%5Bdata%5D=created&columns%5B4%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B4%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=true&columns%5B4%5D%5Borderable%5D=true&columns%5B4%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B4%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B5%5D%5Bdata%5D=due_date&columns%5B5%5D%5Bname%5D=due_date&columns%5B5%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=false&columns%5B5%5D%5Borderable%5D=true&columns%5B5%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B5%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B6%5D%5Bdata%5D=incident.priority&columns%5B6%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B6%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=false&columns%5B6%5D%5Borderable%5D=true&columns%5B6%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B6%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B7%5D%5Bdata%5D=unfinished_reviews&columns%5B7%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B7%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=true&columns%5B7%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B7%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=qam-manager&columns%5B7%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B8%5D%5Bdata%5D=packages&columns%5B8%5D%5Bname%5D=packages&columns%5B8%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=true&columns%5B8%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B8%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B8%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B9%5D%5Bdata%5D=incident.references&columns%5B9%5D%5Bname%5D=incident.patchinfo.references.name&columns%5B9%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=true&columns%5B9%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B9%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B9%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B10%5D%5Bdata%5D=channellist&columns%5B10%5D%5Bname%5D=channels.name&columns%5B10%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=true&columns%5B10%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B10%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=sp4&columns%5B10%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B11%5D%5Bdata%5D=created_by.username&columns%5B11%5D%5Bname%5D=created_by.username&columns%5B11%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=true&columns%5B11%5D%5Borderable%5D=true&columns%5B11%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B11%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B12%5D%5Bdata%5D=url&columns%5B12%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B12%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=false&columns%5B12%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B12%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B12%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B13%5D%5Bdata%5D=kind&columns%5B13%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B13%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=false&columns%5B13%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B13%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B13%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B14%5D%5Bdata%5D=rating&columns%5B14%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B14%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=false&columns%5B14%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B14%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B14%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&columns%5B15%5D%5Bdata%5D=qa_comments_exist&columns%5B15%5D%5Bname%5D=&columns%5B15%5D%5Bsearchable%5D=false&columns%5B15%5D%5Borderable%5D=false&columns%5B15%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bvalue%5D=&columns%5B15%5D%5Bsearch%5D%5Bregex%5D=false&order%5B0%5D%5Bcolumn%5D=6&order%5B0%5D%5Bdir%5D=desc&start=0&length=250&search%5Bvalue%5D=&search%5Bregex%5D=false&_=1726339618939'
+    headers = {
+        'Accept': 'application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01',
+        'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.6',
+        'Connection': 'keep-alive',
+        'Referer': 'https://smelt.suse.de/overview/',
+        'Sec-Fetch-Dest': 'empty',
+        'Sec-Fetch-Mode': 'cors',
+        'Sec-Fetch-Site': 'same-origin',
+        'Sec-GPC': '1',
+        'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest'
+    }
+    maintenance_incidents_on_qa = requests.get(smelt_testing_site, headers=headers, verify=False, timeout=10).content
+    producer = confluent_kafka.Producer({'bootstrap.servers': kafka_broker})
+    producer.produce(kafka_topic, maintenance_incidents_on_qa)
+    producer.flush()
+