Confluent Kafka Single Node Image 8.0.2 & 8.0.1
Redhat 9.6.x and Ubuntu 24.04

Features (Default) at a glance

Available as single node only on Azure Marketplace (Confluent License Restrictions)

• Confluent Kafka Node
  
  • KRaft Controller, Kafka Broker, Kafka Connect, Schema-Registry, Kafka-Rest, KSQL & ControlcenterNextgen systemd processes
    • KSQL Requires two nodes
  • Connector-plugins Installed - providing integration via connectors
  • Mandatory mTLS and Kafka Access Control Lists for connecting to Kafka
  • Certificate & Kafka-ACL scripts for easy application onboarding or for mTLS 
    • Certificates provided for KRaft Controller+Kafka-Broker, Kafka-Connect, Schema-Registry, Kafka-Restand ControlcenterNextgen
    • ACLs created for KRaft Controller+Kafka-Broker, Kafka-Connect, Schema-Registry, Kafka-Rest, KSQL
    • ACL script provided
• Easily integrate with organization's Observability stack 
  • JMX and Jolokia Enabled Metrics Collection for Kafka-Components
  • OS Metrics via Node-Exporter
  • Controlcenter Nextgen aldos provided Prometheus & Alertmanager
• Secure Client Access - mandatory mTLS+Kafka ACLs
  • Java-Clients, curl and Non-Java Clients - integrate via Kafka-streams
  • Use the installed connector-plugins or easily add new plugins
  • No development costs + Register for deployment assistance
  • No maintenance overhead
  • Expert Support available - Apache-Kafka, Confluent

Confluent Ports

The following are the Confluent Kafka Component Ports. Use this as a guide when creating the security groups (for applications access), NACLs etc.

Observability Ports

The following are the Observability Ports. Use this as a guide when creating the security groups (for observability access), NACLs etc.

Metrics Ports

Use this to integrate with the Observability framework in your organization. Optionally we provide an Observability image for Kafka

Prerequisites

• Networking will need to be defined
  • Vnet
  • Private Subnets
  • Kafka Security Group
  • Secure SSH Connectvitiy
• DNS - will need to be defined

Apache Kafka Cluster CFT 3.9.1, 4.0.x & 4.1.x

Available on AWS Marketplace 

Video for detailed Installation & Post-Checks

Benefits

• Quick and Easy to Deploy and use Secure Apache Kafka Cluster
  
  • Provide a few mandatory Input Parameters and deploy
• No development costs
• No maintnenance overhead
• Expert Kafka Support - Apache-Kafka, Confluent
• Includes detailed documentation for Installation, On-boarding & Post-checks

Features (Default) at a glance

• Security
  • mTLS - Cluster and Application access
• High Availability and Resilience
  • Multi-AZ Deployment
  • MirrorMaker 2 (Inbuilt)
• Apache Kafka 3-Node Cluster
  
  • Kafka Brokers
  • Kafka Connect (Connector-Plugins Installed)
  • Kafka Streams
  • Kafka Access Control Lists mandatory in 3.9.1, 4.0. x & 4.1.x
• Observability Metrics and Integration
  • JMX Enabled Collection for Kafka-Components
  • OS Metrics via Node-Exporter
• Secure Client Access
  • Java-Clients, Curl and Non-Java Clients
• Networking Provided
  • Custom VPC CIDR & Name - available in 3.9.1, 4.0. x & 4.1.x 
  • Private Subnets
  • Kafka Security Group 
  • LoadBalancer for Public connectivity (Requires mTLS+Kafka-ACLs) - available in 3.9.1, 4.0. x & 4.1.x
  • LoadBalancer Security Group available in 3.9.1 & 4.0.x
  • EC2-Instance-Connect
• DNS - Private Zone Route53 DNS for Cluster-Components
• Flexible storage via input parameter (250GiB to 16TB) - available in 3.9.1, 4.0.x & 4.1.x