3. Kafka for Operator

3. Kafka for Operator

Focus: Managing Kafka clusters, ensuring high availability, performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Key Skills: Understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, zookeeper, topics, partitions). Experience with cluster management and deployment (configuration, scaling, upgrades). Familiarity with monitoring tools and metrics (e.g., Kafka Manager, Prometheus, Grafana). Skills in troubleshooting and performance tuning. Knowledge of backup and recovery strategies.

  • what kind of infrastructure you need to deploy kafka?
    • example in Cloud (AWS, GCP)
    • example in on-prem
  • cost calculation
    • engineering hour
    • infrastructure cost
  • monitoring kafka
  • scaling kafka
  • upgrading kafka: adding/removing/replacing kafka broker
  • securing kafka
  • troubleshooting kafka
  • democratizing kafka in your organization
    • let teams control access to their kafka topic