Getting Started with Apache Kafka and Kubernetes | Confluent

This post introduces open-source Helm Charts for deploying Confluent Platform components (Kafka, ZooKeeper, Schema Registry, REST Proxy, Kafka Connect) on Kubernetes. It details the use of StatefulSets and Persistent Volumes for stateful components, and Deployments for stateless components. It also highlights best practices for running Confluent Platform on Kubernetes in a white paper, covering networking, storage, traffic, log aggregation, and metrics.