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Chapter 4. Deployment path

You can configure a deployment where Streams for Apache Kafka manages a single Kafka cluster in the same namespace, suitable for development or testing. Alternatively, Streams for Apache Kafka can manage multiple Kafka clusters across different namespaces in a production environment.

The basic deployment path includes the following steps:

  1. Create an OpenShift namespace for the Cluster Operator.
  2. Deploy the Cluster Operator based on your chosen deployment method.
  3. Deploy the Kafka cluster, including the Topic Operator and User Operator if desired.

  4. Optionally, deploy additional components:

    • The Topic Operator and User Operator as standalone components, if not deployed with the Kafka cluster
    • Kafka Connect
    • Kafka MirrorMaker
    • Kafka Bridge
    • Metrics monitoring components

The Cluster Operator creates OpenShift resources such as Deployment, Service, and Pod for each component. The resource names are appended with the name of the deployed component. For example, a Kafka cluster named my-kafka-cluster will have a service named my-kafka-cluster-kafka.

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