Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, wicked fast, and runs in production in thousands of companies.
Use this spotguide to deploy Kafka on Kubernetes within minutes.
It uses Pravega Zookeeper-operator to install the required Zookeeper cluster.
Monitoring Kafka is done through Prometheus and Grafana.
Kafka and Zookeeper are separated using Kubernetes namespaces.
All Kafka related entities are deployed to namespace kafka, Zookeeper ones to zookeeper.
It also contains a WordCount Kafka Stream example. It can be used to try out the spotguide.