Run Apache Kafka on Kubernetes and OpenShift

Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations. See our website for more details about the project.

Quick Starts

To get up and running quickly, check our Quick Start for Minikube, OKD (OpenShift Origin) and Kubernetes Kind.

Documentation

Documentation to the current main branch as well as all releases can be found on our website.

Getting help

If you encounter any issues while using Strimzi, you can get help using:

• #strimzi channel on CNCF Slack
• Strimzi Users mailing list
• GitHub Discussions

Strimzi Community Meetings

You can join our regular community meetings:

• Thursday 8:00 AM UTC (every 4 weeks starting from 4th June 2020) - convert to your timezone
• Thursday 4:00 PM UTC (every 4 weeks starting from 18th June 2020) - convert to your timezone

Resources:

• Meeting minutes, agenda and Zoom link
• Recordings
• Calendar (Subscribe to the calendar)

Contributing

You can contribute by:

• Raising any issues you find using Strimzi
• Fixing issues by opening Pull Requests
• Improving documentation
• Talking about Strimzi

All bugs, tasks or enhancements are tracked as GitHub issues. Issues which might be a good start for new contributors are marked with "good-start" label.

The Dev guide describes how to build Strimzi. Before submitting a patch, please make sure to understand, how to test your changes before opening a PR Test guide.

The Documentation Contributor Guide describes how to contribute to Strimzi documentation.

If you want to get in touch with us first before contributing, you can use:

• #strimzi channel on CNCF Slack
• Strimzi Dev mailing list

License

Strimzi is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Strimzi is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project.