Kafka Without ZooKeeper: KRaft on Kubernetes with Strimzi

When a platform needs to move events in real time, many producers, many consumers, durable and replayable, Kafka is the backbone. The 2020 edition ran it the only way you could back then: a Kafka cluster sitting on top of a separate Apache ZooKeeper ensemble that held its metadata. That whole second cluster is gone now. I run Kafka in KRaft mode on the storage set up earlier , managed by an…