Sunday, September 14, 2025

Apache Kafka Cluster CFT 3.9.1 & 4.0.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
  • 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 
    • Private Subnets
    • Kafka Security Group 
    • LoadBalancer for Public connectivity (Requires mTLS+Kafka-ACLs) - available in 3.9.1 & 4.0.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