Mastering Kafka Workload Balancing With Strimzi’s Cruise Control Integration
Talkat Data on Kubernetes Day Europe 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-04-01· at 09:45· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E·
summary
Strimzi runs Cruise Control alongside Kafka on Kubernetes, automatically enabling the metrics reporter, TLS, and a rolling broker update to collect CPU, disk, network and leader distribution metrics. Operators create a KafkaRebalance CR (or use templated auto-rebalance) and see a proposal in status showing megabytes to move, leader counts and replica moves; approval uses an annotation and Cruise Control executes add-brokers mode or remove-brokers mode to migrate partitions safely. Self-heal exists but remains opt-in and progress reporting is planned.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Kafka workload balancing
- 6:03Cruise Control overview
- 11:59Strimzi Cruise Control integration
- 15:38KafkaRebalance resource
- 20:11Rebalancing with annotations
- 22:16Scaling brokers
- 24:20Auto-rebalancing on scale
- 26:10Self-healing plans
- 27:13Community & events
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