Keynote: Strimzi past, present and future
summary
Strimzi now runs Apache Kafka 4 in KRaft-only mode with 0.4.6 released in May and 0.4.5 supporting ZooKeeper until year end; the project shows 5.2K GitHub stars, 3.5K Slack members and ~300 active contributors. Recent additions: per-broker TLS secrets, automatic KRaft node unregister on scale-down, Cruise Control auto rebalancing on scale up/down, connector offsets managed in CRs, HTTP Bridge OpenAPI v3 and an early-access Prometheus metrics reporter plus an Access Operator. Planned work includes cert-manager integration and Cruise Control self-healing.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Welcome to StreamCon 2025
- 1:06Acknowledgments
- 4:20Strimzi introduction
- 5:22Past year updates
- 8:52Future plans
- 11:21Engaging with Strimzi
- 16:39Contribution roles
- 18:03Today's agenda
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