Sunday, September 14, 2025

Apache Kafka Single Node Image 3.9.1 & 4.0.x

Features (Default) at a glance

Available on Azure Marketplace
  • Apache Kafka Node
    • KRaft Controller, Kafka Broker, Kafka Connect systemd processes
    • 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 within the cluster
  • Easily integrate with organization's Observability stack 
    • JMX Enabled Collection for Kafka-Components
    • OS Metrics via Node-Exporter
  • 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 - Apache-Kafka, Confluent 

Quick deploy

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