Chapter 10. Supported Configurations

The following platforms are tested for Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9 running with Kafka on the version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) stated.

Platforms are tested with Open JDK 11 and 17, though Java 11 is deprecated in Streams for Apache Kafka 2.7 and will be removed in version 3.0. The IBM JDK is supported but not regularly tested against during each release. Oracle JDK 11 is not supported.

To check which versions of RHEL are approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), see the Cryptographic Module Validation Program on the NIST website.

Only client libraries built by Red Hat are supported for Streams for Apache Kafka. Currently, Streams for Apache Kafka only provides a Java client library, which is tested and supported on kafka-clients-3.8.0.redhat-00007 and newer.

Clients are tested with Open JDK 11 and 17.

In Streams for Apache Kafka, only the following components released directly from the Apache Software Foundation are supported:

See also, Chapter 12, Supported integration with Red Hat products.

Cores used by Red Hat components and product operators do not count against subscription limits. Additionally, cores or vCPUs allocated to ZooKeeper nodes are excluded from subscription compliance calculations and do not count towards a subscription.

Streams for Apache Kafka has been tested with block storage and is compatible with the XFS and ext4 file systems, which are commonly used with Kafka. File-based storage options, such as NFS, are not tested or supported for primary broker storage and may cause instability or degraded performance.