kafka

Rafael Natali

Mar 164 min read

Unlocking Kafka Security with Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Apache Kafka employs Access Control Lists (ACLs) as a vital component of its security infrastructure. ACLs regulate access to Kafka...

Rafael Natali

Jan 152 min read

Monitoring Kafka Container Health with Probes

This article will describe how to use Kubernetes Probes to monitor the health of your Kafka pods. Container Health K8s provides a number...

Rafael Natali

Nov 23, 20232 min read

Monitoring Kafka with Prometheus and Grafana

This page describes the steps to quickly implement basic monitoring for Kafka Brokers using Prometheus and Grafana. Enabling Prometheus...

Rafael Natali

Oct 9, 20233 min read

Automatically Reassigning Partitions in Apache Kafka Cluster

When you need to reassign a partition to another broker or brokers, the kafka-reassign-partitions tool comes in handy. It's particularly...

Rafael Natali

Oct 2, 20232 min read

Improving the performance of a Kafka Connect CSV source connector

When you create a source connector in Kafka Connect, by default it will use the broker's default batch.size which is 16384 bytes (16Kb)....

Rafael Natali

Sep 26, 20233 min read

Running Kafka in Kubernetes with Kraft mode and SASL authentication.

Learn how to launch an Apache Kafka with the Apache Kafka Raft (KRaft) consensus protocol and SASL/PLAIN authentication. This article is...

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Rafael Natali

Sep 20, 20233 min read

Running Kafka in Kubernetes with KRaft mode and SSL

Learn how to launch an Apache Kafka with the Apache Kafka Raft (KRaft) consensus protocol and SSL encryption. This article is a...

Rafael Natali

Sep 14, 20233 min read

Running Kafka in Kubernetes with KRaft mode

Learn how to launch an Apache Kafka with the Apache Kafka Raft (KRaft) consensus protocol, removing Kafka's dependency on Apache...

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Rafael Natali

Aug 14, 20234 min read

How to install Kafka using Docker

Install and configure a Docker environment to run Apache Kafka locally