3 years ago

Category: Data, Kubernetes

by This is the first in a series of blog posts which will cover Apache Kafka on Kubernetes using the Strimzi Operator.

Once you setup the cluster, you can easily configure kubectl to point to itfrom the Strimzi documentationStrimzi simplifies the process of running Apache Kafka in a Kubernetes cluster.

As mentioned, we will keep things simple and start off with the following setup (which we will incrementally update as a part of subsequent posts in this series): To deploy a Kafka cluster all we need to do is create a Strimzi Kafka resource.

To create the Kafka cluster: The Strimzi operator spins into action and creates many Kubernetes resources in response to the Kafka CRD instance we just created.