Dawn of Kafka DevOps: Managing Kafka Clusters at Scale with Control Center | Confluent

This post introduces enhancements in Confluent Control Center 5.2 for managing large Kafka clusters. It details the ability to visualize differences in broker configurations and dynamically reconfigure brokers without restarts, leveraging KIP-226. The post also highlights improved scalability, enabling Control Center to manage approximately 120,000 partition replicas (around 40,000 partitions with a replication factor of three), which covers over 90% of customer workloads.