StrimziCon 2026
who it's for
platform engineers, kafka operators, site reliability engineers, kubernetes operators, security engineers, observability engineers
topics
Strimzi 1.0 v1 CRDs; cert-manager integration; Cruise Control auto-rebalancing; TLS and custom principal builder; multi-tenant CA trust stores; Reddit KRaft migration on Strimzi; Kafka MirrorMaker 2 disaster recovery; Strimzi MCP server with Quarkus; Prometheus and Loki integration; OpenTelemetry JMX and Kafka receiver; operator release and upgrade practices; Kubernetes system tests and CI
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | Katherine Stanley, Paolo Patierno | 21m |
Community update with concrete milestones: Strimzi 1.0 ships V1-only CRDs and a documented upgrade path (move to 0.49–0.51, run CRD conversion tool, then… | ||
| Beyond the Install: Take Full Ownership of Your Strimzi Cluster | Jakub Scholz | 29m |
Explains concrete operations: regular operator releases every one to two months, patch releases usually only for the latest minor, and Kafka support limited to… | ||
| Who Are You? Configuring Kafka Authentication in Strimzi from TLS to Custom Principals | D. Mulder | 30m |
Axual moves a single-tenant Kafka rollout to multi-tenant Strimzi by trusting multiple customer CAs, building a custom Principal Builder that encodes the full… | ||
| Swapping the Engine Mid-Flight: How We Moved Reddit’s Petabyte Scale Kafka Fleet to ... | S. Kistler | 27m |
Reddit migrates roughly 500 brokers holding a couple petabytes and ~50M messages/sec from EC2 into Strimzi on Kubernetes with zero scheduled downtime and no… | ||
| Building Strimzi MCP Server for Kubernetes: Democratizing Platform Exper... | D. Kornel, J. Stejskal | 33m |
An open source Strimzi MCP server built in Java with Quarkus connects LLM agents to Kubernetes via a read-only interface, exposing 55 tools (kubectl-like… | ||
| From Running to Operating: Real-World Strimzi in Production | Rajith Attapattu, Randoli | 30m |
Runs Strimzi-backed Kafka as the core of an observability pipeline, classifying topics so replication factor, acks, partitions, retention and cleanup match… | ||
| Disaster Recovery in Action with Kafka and Strimzi | Mickael Maison, Gantigmaa Selenge | 36m |
Explains a practical Strimzi + Kafka DR setup that uses Kafka MirrorMaker 2 deployed next to the target cluster with at least three Connect workers, running… | ||
| Closing | Katherine Stanley, Paolo Patierno | 06m |
Summary of community takeaways and concrete road map items: highlights include Kafka Connect, MirrorMaker, ZooKeeper-to-KRaft migration and operational… | ||
| nothing matches | ||