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:

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.