Charmed Apache Kafka

Charmed Apache Kafka

This is an open-source software operator (charm) that simplifies the deployment and management of Apache Kafka on traditional machine environments in a platform-agnostic way. Whether you’re on public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or private infrastructure (OpenStack, VMWare), this charm provides a consistent and reliable way to deploy and run an Apache Kafka cluster.

This is a IAAS/VM operator. To deploy on Kubernetes, see Charmed Apache Kafka K8s operator.

Apache Kafka is a free, open-source software project by the Apache Software Foundation.

The charm helps ops teams and administrators automate Apache Kafka operations from Day 0 to Day 2 with additional capabilities, such as: replication, TLS encryption, password rotation, easy-to-use application integration, and monitoring.

Getting started

Deploying and using the Charmed Apache Kafka is simple and straightforward with Juju. For example, to deploy three nodes of Charmed Apache Kafka with five nodes of Charmed Apache ZooKeeper:

juju deploy kafka -n 3
juju deploy zookeeper -n 5
juju integrate kafka zookeeper

For more information, see our tutorial and how-to guides:

Full documentation

For additional guidance, see our full Charmed Apache Kafka documentation at https://documentation.ubuntu.com/charmed-kafka/.

Project and community

Charmed Apache Kafka is a distribution of Apache Kafka. It’s an open-source project that welcomes community contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.

Apache®, Apache Kafka, Kafka®, and the Apache Kafka logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries.

License

The Charmed Apache Kafka Operator is free software, distributed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.