StrimziCon 2025
who it's for
platform engineers, kafka operators, site reliability engineers, kubernetes operators, observability engineers, devops engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
OpenTelemetry end-to-end tracing; Prometheus-format HTTP metrics reporter; KRaft migration with KafkaNodePool; multi-cluster stretch Kafka; phased Strimzi operator upgrades; MirrorMaker2 DNS failover; custom resource selector labels; helm values parsing bug; KIND local development workflow; Cruise Control auto rebalancing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| When GitOps goes wrong, and other challenges for Strimzi platform teams | Björn Löfroth | 29m |
A Helm values syntax bug in a specific Helm version produces empty output that removes all Kafka topic CRs and causes topic and data deletion, prompting… | ||
| Strimzi & OpenTelemetry: Building End-to-End Observability for Kafka on Kubernetes | Neel Shah | 19m |
Strimzi plus OpenTelemetry shows end-to-end observability for Kafka on Kubernetes by wiring producer→broker→consumer traces into backends like Grafana, Tempo… | ||
| Stretching Strimzi: Exploring Multi-Cluster Kafka for High Availability | Aswin A | 32m |
Proposal claims Strimzi can run Kafka brokers and controllers across multiple Kubernetes clusters while managing a single Kafka CR; it uses Kubernetes MCS with… | ||
| Phased upgrades of Strimzi managed Kafka fleets | Thomas Cooper | 28m |
Deploy two adjacent Strimzi operator versions side‑by‑side, keep one cluster‑scoped set of CRDs at the newest version, and partition which Kafka CRs each… | ||
| Keynote: Strimzi past, present and future | Katherine Stanley, Paolo Patierno | 21m |
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… | ||
| Improving Kafka monitoring with native Prometheu... | Owen Corrigan, Federico Valeri, Mickael Maison | 32m |
Strimzi implements a native Prometheus metrics reporter that removes JMX exporter and exposes Prometheus-format metrics over HTTP (default port 9404)… | ||
| Managing a Kafka cluster in KRaft mode with Strimzi | Gantigmaa Selenge | 33m |
Strimzi shows how to run Kafka in KRaft mode, automating a five‑phase migration from ZooKeeper while requiring the user to create a KafkaNodePool for… | ||
| Become a Local Development Jedi with Strimzi and KIND | Colt McNealy | 23m |
Shows how to run a local Kafka stack with Strimzi and KIND: uses Strimzi CanICO build to compile Kafka Connect image with the Little Horse connector, runs a… | ||
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