Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes

Strimzi is an open source operator that facilitates the deployment and management of Kafka clusters on Kubernetes, creating new CRDs. It is developed and maintained by the Strimzi project, which is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The Strimzi operator provides a declarative approach to managing Kafka clusters on Kubernetes. Instead of manually creating and configuring Kafka components, you define the desired state of your Kafka cluster using Kubernetes custom resources. The operator then takes care of deploying and managing the Kafka components according to the specified configuration:

1. To deploy Strimzi in Kubernetes, first, we need to install its Helm chart:

   helm repo add strimzi https://strimzi.io/charts/

2. Next, we install the operator with the following command:

   helm install kafka strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator --namespace kafka --create-namespace --version 0.40.0

3. We can check whether the deployment was successful with...