Simplifying Apache Kafka on Kubernetes With Strimzi
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 16:15· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12·
summary
Strimzi packages Kafka on Kubernetes with concrete automations: KRaft migration removes ZooKeeper and Strimzi 0.46 will require KRaft while 0.45 is the last ZK release and migration is semi‑automated via annotations with rollback, Kafka 4 now drops ZooKeeper. Tiered storage offloads old segments to S3/GCS/Azure or custom managers to cut broker disk and speed recovery. Cruise Control integration enables auto rebalancing tied to scale events, plus a Prometheus metric reporter, cert-manager integration planned, Gateway API and stretch cluster prototypes under active design.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Apache Kafka basics
- 4:58Strimzi overview
- 8:52Migrating to KRaft
- 11:23KRaft mode support
- 12:05Tiered Storage in Strimzi
- 17:19Auto-rebalancing scaling
- 20:25Certificate management
- 21:52Self-healing with Cruise Control
- 23:19Strimzi v1 API future
- 24:43Gateway API integration
- 26:07Stretch clusters
- 27:10Community engagement
- 29:02Q&A MirrorMaker
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