KUDO Kafka Operator
The KUDO Kafka operator creates, configures and manages Apache Kafka clusters running on Kubernetes.
Overview
KUDO Kafka is a Kubernetes operator built on KUDO to manage Apache Kafka in a scalable, repeatable, and standardized way over Kubernetes. Currently KUDO Kafka supports:
- Securing the cluster in various ways: TLS encryption, Kerberos authentication, Kafka AuthZ
- Prometheus metrics right out of the box with example Grafana dashboards
- Kerberos support
- Graceful rolling updates for any cluster configuration changes
- Graceful rolling upgrades when upgrading the operator version
- External access through LB/Nodeports
- Mirror-maker integration
- Cruise Control integration
- Connect integration
To get more information around KUDO Kafka architecture please take a look on the KUDO Kafka concepts document.
Getting started
The latest stable version of Kafka operator is 1.3.3
For more details, please see the docs folder.
Testing Features
You can also test some of key features of KUDO Kafka present in features runbook.
Releases
| KUDO Kafka | Apache Kafka | Minimum KUDO Version |
|---|---|---|
| 1.2.1 | 2.4.1 | 0.11.0 |
| 1.3.0 | 2.5.0 | 0.11.0 |
| 1.3.1 | 2.5.0 | 0.13.0 |
| 1.3.2 | 2.5.1 | 0.14.0 |
| 1.3.3 | 2.5.1 | 0.14.0 |
Unreleased version
| KUDO Kafka | Apache Kafka | Minimum KUDO Version |
|---|---|---|
| 1.3.4 | 2.6.0 | 0.14.0 |