strimzi-kafka-operator :: openCenter Community Documentation

Strimzi Kafka Operator

Purpose: For platform engineers, data platform teams, documents the Strimzi Kafka Operator service in openCenter-gitops-base.

strimzi-kafka-operator deploys the Strimzi operator so Kafka clusters, topics, and users can be managed declaratively in Kubernetes.

What This Repo Deploys

Namespace/kafka-system
HelmRelease/strimzi-kafka-operator
Base values Secret: kafka-api-values-base
Optional override Secret: kafka-api-values-override

When to Use It

Kafka should be operated as a platform service inside the cluster.

Example

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: platform-kafka
spec:
  kafka:
    replicas: 3

Configuration Surfaces

Service path: applications/base/services/strimzi-kafka-operator/
Namespace: kafka-system
Flux object: HelmRelease/strimzi-kafka-operator
Source: oci://quay.io/strimzi-helm

Upstream References