Chapter 3. Technology Previews

Use the Kafka Static Quota plugin to set throughput and storage limits on brokers in your Kafka cluster. You enable the plugin and set limits by configuring the Kafka resource. You can set a byte-rate threshold and storage quotas to put limits on the clients interacting with your brokers.

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    config:
      client.quota.callback.class: io.strimzi.kafka.quotas.StaticQuotaCallback
      client.quota.callback.static.produce: 1000000
      client.quota.callback.static.fetch: 1000000
      client.quota.callback.static.storage.soft: 400000000000
      client.quota.callback.static.storage.hard: 500000000000
      client.quota.callback.static.storage.check-interval: 5

See Setting limits on brokers using the Kafka Static Quota plugin.

You can deploy Cruise Control and use it to rebalance your Kafka cluster using optimization goals — defined constraints on CPU, disk, network load, and more. In a balanced Kafka cluster, the workload is more evenly distributed across the broker pods.

Cruise Control is configured and deployed as part of a Kafka resource. You can use the default optimization goals or modify them to suit your requirements. Example YAML configuration files for Cruise Control are provided in examples/cruise-control/.

When Cruise Control is deployed, you can create KafkaRebalance custom resources to:

Other Cruise Control features are not currently supported, including anomaly detection, notifications, write-your-own goals, and changing the topic replication factor.

See Cruise Control for cluster rebalancing.