Installing the Apache Kafka Operator using KUDO

There are multiple Kafka operators listed in the See also section, such as Strimzi, Banzai Cloud, Confluent, krallistic, and others. Although I don't have any preference in this recipe, as an example, we will deploy the Apache Kafka Operator based on the KUDO Operator.

Let's perform the following steps:

1. Kafka requires ZooKeeper. Let's create a ZooKeeper cluster:

$ kubectl kudo install zookeeper --instance=zk

2. Create a Kafka cluster using the KUDO Kafka Operator:

$ kubectl kudo install kafka --instance=kafka

3. List KUDO Operators by querying the Operators CRD APIs as follows. After deploying Kafka, which also has a ZooKeeper dependency, you should see both kafka and zookeeper operators:

$ kubectl get Operators
NAME      AGE
kafka     9s
zookeeper 17s

4. List KUDO instances:

$ kubectl get instances
NAME  AGE
kafka 25s
zk    33s

Now you have learned how to deploy both ZooKeeper and Kafka using the KUDO Operator.