Confluent Platform is Now Certified Ready on AWS Outposts
Sep 15, 2020Joseph Morais
Summary
This post details the validation of Confluent Platform on AWS Outposts, a hybrid cloud solution. It outlines the connectivity requirements for Outposts instances, the process of building a custom Ubuntu AMI with necessary tools (Ansible, awscli, boto3, CloudFormation helper scripts), and updating the CloudFormation template for deployment. It also describes the deployment process using CloudFormation and Ansible, and provides steps for verifying the cluster deployment, including creating a topic and producing messages.
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