Strimzi Custom Resource API Reference

Configuration of the broker.rack broker config.

brokerRackInitImage

string

The image of the init container used for initializing the broker.rack.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking.

jvmOptions

JVM Options for pods.

jmxOptions

JMX Options for Kafka brokers.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

metricsConfig

Metrics configuration.

logging

QuotasPluginKafka, QuotasPluginStrimzi

Logging configuration for Kafka.

template

KafkaClusterTemplate

Template for Kafka cluster resources. The template allows users to specify how the Kubernetes resources are generated.

tieredStorage

TieredStorageCustom

Configure the tiered storage feature for Kafka brokers.

quotas

Quotas plugin configuration for Kafka brokers allows setting quotas for disk usage, produce/fetch rates, and more. Supported plugin types include kafka (default) and strimzi. If not specified, the default kafka quotas plugin is used.

6. `GenericKafkaListener` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

Full list of GenericKafkaListener schema properties

Configures listeners to connect to Kafka brokers within and outside Kubernetes.

Configure Kafka broker listeners using the listeners property in the Kafka resource. Listeners are defined as an array.

Example Kafka resource showing listener configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    #...
    listeners:
      - name: plain
        port: 9092
        type: internal
        tls: false
      - name: tls
        port: 9093
        type: internal
        tls: true
        authentication:
          type: tls
      - name: external1
        port: 9094
        type: route
        tls: true
      - name: external2
        port: 9095
        type: ingress
        tls: true
        authentication:
          type: tls
        configuration:
          bootstrap:
            host: bootstrap.myingress.com
          brokers:
          - broker: 0
            host: broker-0.myingress.com
          - broker: 1
            host: broker-1.myingress.com
          - broker: 2
            host: broker-2.myingress.com
    #...

The name and port must be unique within the Kafka cluster. By specifying a unique name and port for each listener, you can configure multiple listeners. The name can be up to 25 characters long, comprising lower-case letters and numbers.

6.1. Specifying a port number

The port number is the port used in the Kafka cluster, which might not be the same port used for access by a client.

loadbalancer listeners use the specified port number, as do internal and cluster-ip listeners
ingress and route listeners use port 443 for access
nodeport listeners use the port number assigned by Kubernetes

For client connection, use the address and port for the bootstrap service of the listener. You can retrieve this from the status of the Kafka resource.

Example command to retrieve the address and port for client connection

kubectl get kafka <kafka_cluster_name> -o=jsonpath='{.status.listeners[?(@.name=="<listener_name>")].bootstrapServers}{"\n"}'

Important

When configuring listeners for client access to brokers, you can use port 9092 or higher (9093, 9094, and so on), but with a few exceptions. The listeners cannot be configured to use the ports reserved for interbroker communication (9090 and 9091), Prometheus metrics (9404), and JMX (Java Management Extensions) monitoring (9999).

6.2. Specifying listener types

Set the type to internal for internal listeners. For external listeners, choose from route, loadbalancer, nodeport, or ingress. You can also configure a cluster-ip listener, which is an internal type used for building custom access mechanisms.

internal

You can configure internal listeners with or without encryption using the tls property.

Example internal listener configuration

#...
spec:
  kafka:
    #...
    listeners:
      #...
      - name: plain
        port: 9092
        type: internal
        tls: false
      - name: tls
        port: 9093
        type: internal
        tls: true
        authentication:
          type: tls
    #...

route

Configures an external listener to expose Kafka using OpenShift Routes and the HAProxy router.

A dedicated Route is created for every Kafka broker pod. An additional Route is created to serve as a Kafka bootstrap address. Kafka clients can use these Routes to connect to Kafka on port 443. The client connects on port 443, the default router port, but traffic is then routed to the port you configure, which is 9094 in this example.

Example route listener configuration

#...
spec:
  kafka:
    #...
    listeners:
      #...
      - name: external1
        port: 9094
        type: route
        tls: true
    #...

ingress

Configures an external listener to expose Kafka using Kubernetes Ingress and the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes.

A dedicated Ingress resource is created for every Kafka broker pod. An additional Ingress resource is created to serve as a Kafka bootstrap address. Kafka clients can use these Ingress resources to connect to Kafka on port 443. The client connects on port 443, the default controller port, but traffic is then routed to the port you configure, which is 9095 in the following example.

You must specify the hostname used by the bootstrap service using GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBootstrap property. And you must also specify the hostnames used by the per-broker services using GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBroker or hostTemplate properties. With the hostTemplate property, you don’t need to specify the configuration for every broker.

Example ingress listener configuration

#...
spec:
  kafka:
    #...
    listeners:
      #...
      - name: external2
        port: 9095
        type: ingress
        tls: true
        authentication:
          type: tls
        configuration:
          hostTemplate: broker-{nodeId}.myingress.com
          bootstrap:
            host: bootstrap.myingress.com
  #...

Note	External listeners using `Ingress` are currently only tested with the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes.

loadbalancer

Configures an external listener to expose Kafka using a Loadbalancer type Service.

A new loadbalancer service is created for every Kafka broker pod. An additional loadbalancer is created to serve as a Kafka bootstrap address. Loadbalancers listen to the specified port number, which is port 9094 in the following example.

You can use the loadBalancerSourceRanges property to configure source ranges to restrict access to the specified IP addresses.

Example loadbalancer listener configuration

#...
spec:
  kafka:
    #...
    listeners:
      - name: external3
        port: 9094
        type: loadbalancer
        tls: true
        configuration:
          loadBalancerSourceRanges:
            - 10.0.0.0/8
            - 88.208.76.87/32
    #...

nodeport

Configures an external listener to expose Kafka using a NodePort type Service.

Kafka clients connect directly to the nodes of Kubernetes. An additional NodePort type of service is created to serve as a Kafka bootstrap address.

When configuring the advertised addresses for the Kafka broker pods, Strimzi uses the address of the node on which the given pod is running.

You can use preferredNodePortAddressType property to configure the first address type checked as the node address.

Example nodeport listener configuration

#...
spec:
  kafka:
    #...
    listeners:
      #...
      - name: external4
        port: 9095
        type: nodeport
        tls: false
        configuration:
          preferredNodePortAddressType: InternalDNS
    #...

Note	TLS hostname verification is not currently supported when exposing Kafka clusters using node ports.

cluster-ip

Configures an internal listener to expose Kafka using a per-broker ClusterIP type Service.

The listener does not use a headless service and its DNS names to route traffic to Kafka brokers. You can use this type of listener to expose a Kafka cluster when using the headless service is unsuitable. You might use it with a custom access mechanism, such as one that uses a specific Ingress controller or the Kubernetes Gateway API.

A new ClusterIP service is created for each Kafka broker pod. The service is assigned a ClusterIP address to serve as a Kafka bootstrap address with a per-broker port number. For example, you can configure the listener to expose a Kafka cluster over an Nginx Ingress Controller with TCP port configuration.

Example cluster-ip listener configuration

#...
spec:
  kafka:
    #...
    listeners:
      - name: clusterip
        type: cluster-ip
        tls: false
        port: 9096
    #...

6.3. Configuring network policies to restrict listener access

Use networkPolicyPeers to configure network policies that restrict access to a listener at the network level. The following example shows a networkPolicyPeers configuration for a plain and a tls listener.

In the following example:

Only application pods matching the labels app: kafka-sasl-consumer and app: kafka-sasl-producer can connect to the plain listener. The application pods must be running in the same namespace as the Kafka broker.
Only application pods running in namespaces matching the labels project: myproject and project: myproject2 can connect to the tls listener.

The syntax of the networkPolicyPeers property is the same as the from property in NetworkPolicy resources.

Example network policy configuration

listeners:
  #...
  - name: plain
    port: 9092
    type: internal
    tls: true
    authentication:
      type: scram-sha-512
    networkPolicyPeers:
      - podSelector:
          matchLabels:
            app: kafka-sasl-consumer
      - podSelector:
          matchLabels:
            app: kafka-sasl-producer
  - name: tls
    port: 9093
    type: internal
    tls: true
    authentication:
      type: tls
    networkPolicyPeers:
      - namespaceSelector:
          matchLabels:
            project: myproject
      - namespaceSelector:
          matchLabels:
            project: myproject2
# ...

6.4. `GenericKafkaListener` schema properties

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
name	string	Name of the listener. The name will be used to identify the listener and the related Kubernetes objects. The name has to be unique within given a Kafka cluster. The name can consist of lowercase characters and numbers and be up to 11 characters long.
port	integer	Port number used by the listener inside Kafka. The port number has to be unique within a given Kafka cluster. Allowed port numbers are 9092 and higher with the exception of ports 9404 and 9999, which are already used for Prometheus and JMX. Depending on the listener type, the port number might not be the same as the port number that connects Kafka clients.
type	string (one of [ingress, internal, route, loadbalancer, cluster-ip, nodeport])	Type of the listener. The supported types are as follows: `internal` type exposes Kafka internally only within the Kubernetes cluster. `route` type uses OpenShift Routes to expose Kafka. `loadbalancer` type uses LoadBalancer type services to expose Kafka. `nodeport` type uses NodePort type services to expose Kafka. `ingress` type uses Kubernetes Nginx Ingress to expose Kafka with TLS passthrough. `cluster-ip` type uses a per-broker `ClusterIP` service.
tls	boolean	Enables TLS encryption on the listener. This is a required property. For `route` and `ingress` type listeners, TLS encryption must be always enabled.
authentication	`KafkaListenerAuthenticationTls`, `KafkaListenerAuthenticationScramSha512`, `KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth`, `KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom`	Authentication configuration for this listener.
configuration	`GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration`	Additional listener configuration.
networkPolicyPeers	NetworkPolicyPeer array	List of peers which should be able to connect to this listener. Peers in this list are combined using a logical OR operation. If this field is empty or missing, all connections will be allowed for this listener. If this field is present and contains at least one item, the listener only allows the traffic which matches at least one item in this list.

name

string

Name of the listener. The name will be used to identify the listener and the related Kubernetes objects. The name has to be unique within given a Kafka cluster. The name can consist of lowercase characters and numbers and be up to 11 characters long.

port

integer

Port number used by the listener inside Kafka. The port number has to be unique within a given Kafka cluster. Allowed port numbers are 9092 and higher with the exception of ports 9404 and 9999, which are already used for Prometheus and JMX. Depending on the listener type, the port number might not be the same as the port number that connects Kafka clients.

type

string (one of [ingress, internal, route, loadbalancer, cluster-ip, nodeport])

Type of the listener. The supported types are as follows:

internal type exposes Kafka internally only within the Kubernetes cluster.
route type uses OpenShift Routes to expose Kafka.
loadbalancer type uses LoadBalancer type services to expose Kafka.
nodeport type uses NodePort type services to expose Kafka.
ingress type uses Kubernetes Nginx Ingress to expose Kafka with TLS passthrough.
cluster-ip type uses a per-broker ClusterIP service.

tls

boolean

Enables TLS encryption on the listener. This is a required property. For route and ingress type listeners, TLS encryption must be always enabled.

authentication

KafkaListenerAuthenticationTls, KafkaListenerAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth, KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom

Authentication configuration for this listener.

configuration

GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration

Additional listener configuration.

networkPolicyPeers

NetworkPolicyPeer array

List of peers which should be able to connect to this listener. Peers in this list are combined using a logical OR operation. If this field is empty or missing, all connections will be allowed for this listener. If this field is present and contains at least one item, the listener only allows the traffic which matches at least one item in this list.

7. `KafkaListenerAuthenticationTls` schema reference

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaListenerAuthenticationTls type from KafkaListenerAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth, KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom. It must have the value tls for the type KafkaListenerAuthenticationTls.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `tls`.

type

string

Must be tls.

8. `KafkaListenerAuthenticationScramSha512` schema reference

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaListenerAuthenticationScramSha512 type from KafkaListenerAuthenticationTls, KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth, KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom. It must have the value scram-sha-512 for the type KafkaListenerAuthenticationScramSha512.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `scram-sha-512`.

type

string

Must be scram-sha-512.

9. `KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth` schema reference

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth type from KafkaListenerAuthenticationTls, KafkaListenerAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom. It must have the value oauth for the type KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `oauth`.
clientId	string	OAuth Client ID which the Kafka broker can use to authenticate against the authorization server and use the introspect endpoint URI.
clientSecret	`GenericSecretSource`	Link to Kubernetes Secret containing the OAuth client secret which the Kafka broker can use to authenticate against the authorization server and use the introspect endpoint URI.
validIssuerUri	string	URI of the token issuer used for authentication.
checkIssuer	boolean	Enable or disable issuer checking. By default issuer is checked using the value configured by `validIssuerUri`. Default value is `true`.
checkAudience	boolean	Enable or disable audience checking. Audience checks identify the recipients of tokens. If audience checking is enabled, the OAuth Client ID also has to be configured using the `clientId` property. The Kafka broker will reject tokens that do not have its `clientId` in their `aud` (audience) claim.Default value is `false`.
jwksEndpointUri	string	URI of the JWKS certificate endpoint, which can be used for local JWT validation.
jwksRefreshSeconds	integer	Configures how often are the JWKS certificates refreshed. The refresh interval has to be at least 60 seconds shorter then the expiry interval specified in `jwksExpirySeconds`. Defaults to 300 seconds.
jwksMinRefreshPauseSeconds	integer	The minimum pause between two consecutive refreshes. When an unknown signing key is encountered the refresh is scheduled immediately, but will always wait for this minimum pause. Defaults to 1 second.
jwksExpirySeconds	integer	Configures how often are the JWKS certificates considered valid. The expiry interval has to be at least 60 seconds longer then the refresh interval specified in `jwksRefreshSeconds`. Defaults to 360 seconds.
jwksIgnoreKeyUse	boolean	Flag to ignore the 'use' attribute of `key` declarations in a JWKS endpoint response. Default value is `false`.
introspectionEndpointUri	string	URI of the token introspection endpoint which can be used to validate opaque non-JWT tokens.
userNameClaim	string	Name of the claim from the JWT authentication token, Introspection Endpoint response or User Info Endpoint response which will be used to extract the user id. Defaults to `sub`.
fallbackUserNameClaim	string	The fallback username claim to be used for the user ID if the claim specified by `userNameClaim` is not present. This is useful when `client_credentials` authentication only results in the client ID being provided in another claim. It only takes effect if `userNameClaim` is set.
fallbackUserNamePrefix	string	The prefix to use with the value of `fallbackUserNameClaim` to construct the user id. This only takes effect if `fallbackUserNameClaim` is true, and the value is present for the claim. Mapping usernames and client ids into the same user id space is useful in preventing name collisions.
groupsClaim	string	JsonPath query used to extract groups for the user during authentication. Extracted groups can be used by a custom authorizer. By default no groups are extracted.
groupsClaimDelimiter	string	A delimiter used to parse groups when they are extracted as a single String value rather than a JSON array. Default value is ',' (comma).
userInfoEndpointUri	string	URI of the User Info Endpoint to use as a fallback to obtaining the user id when the Introspection Endpoint does not return information that can be used for the user id.
checkAccessTokenType	boolean	Configure whether the access token type check is performed or not. This should be set to `false` if the authorization server does not include 'typ' claim in JWT token. Defaults to `true`.
validTokenType	string	Valid value for the `token_type` attribute returned by the Introspection Endpoint. No default value, and not checked by default.
accessTokenIsJwt	boolean	Configure whether the access token is treated as JWT. This must be set to `false` if the authorization server returns opaque tokens. Defaults to `true`.
tlsTrustedCertificates	`CertSecretSource` array	Trusted certificates for TLS connection to the OAuth server.
disableTlsHostnameVerification	boolean	Enable or disable TLS hostname verification. Default value is `false`.
enableECDSA	boolean	The `enableECDSA` property has been deprecated. Enable or disable ECDSA support by installing BouncyCastle crypto provider. ECDSA support is always enabled. The BouncyCastle libraries are no longer packaged with Strimzi. Value is ignored.
maxSecondsWithoutReauthentication	integer	Maximum number of seconds the authenticated session remains valid without re-authentication. This enables Apache Kafka re-authentication feature, and causes sessions to expire when the access token expires. If the access token expires before max time or if max time is reached, the client has to re-authenticate, otherwise the server will drop the connection. Not set by default - the authenticated session does not expire when the access token expires. This option only applies to SASL_OAUTHBEARER authentication mechanism (when `enableOauthBearer` is `true`).
enablePlain	boolean	Enable or disable OAuth authentication over SASL_PLAIN. There is no re-authentication support when this mechanism is used. Default value is `false`.
tokenEndpointUri	string	URI of the Token Endpoint to use with SASL_PLAIN mechanism when the client authenticates with `clientId` and a `secret`. If set, the client can authenticate over SASL_PLAIN by either setting `username` to `clientId`, and setting `password` to client `secret`, or by setting `username` to account username, and `password` to access token prefixed with `$accessToken:`. If this option is not set, the `password` is always interpreted as an access token (without a prefix), and `username` as the account username (a so called 'no-client-credentials' mode).
enableOauthBearer	boolean	Enable or disable OAuth authentication over SASL_OAUTHBEARER. Default value is `true`.
customClaimCheck	string	JsonPath filter query to be applied to the JWT token or to the response of the introspection endpoint for additional token validation. Not set by default.
connectTimeoutSeconds	integer	The connect timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective connect timeout is 60 seconds.
readTimeoutSeconds	integer	The read timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective read timeout is 60 seconds.
httpRetries	integer	The maximum number of retries to attempt if an initial HTTP request fails. If not set, the default is to not attempt any retries.
httpRetryPauseMs	integer	The pause to take before retrying a failed HTTP request. If not set, the default is to not pause at all but to immediately repeat a request.
clientScope	string	The scope to use when making requests to the authorization server’s token endpoint. Used for inter-broker authentication and for configuring OAuth 2.0 over PLAIN using the `clientId` and `secret` method.
clientAudience	string	The audience to use when making requests to the authorization server’s token endpoint. Used for inter-broker authentication and for configuring OAuth 2.0 over PLAIN using the `clientId` and `secret` method.
enableMetrics	boolean	Enable or disable OAuth metrics. Default value is `false`.
failFast	boolean	Enable or disable termination of Kafka broker processes due to potentially recoverable runtime errors during startup. Default value is `true`.
includeAcceptHeader	boolean	Whether the Accept header should be set in requests to the authorization servers. The default value is `true`.
serverBearerTokenLocation	string	Path to the file on the local filesystem that contains a bearer token to be used instead of client ID and secret when authenticating to authorization server.
userNamePrefix	string	The prefix to use with the value of `userNameClaim` to construct the user ID. This only takes effect if `userNameClaim` is specified and the value is present for the claim. When used in combination with `fallbackUserNameClaims`, it ensures consistent mapping of usernames and client IDs into the same user ID space and prevents name collisions.

type

string

Must be oauth.

clientId

string

OAuth Client ID which the Kafka broker can use to authenticate against the authorization server and use the introspect endpoint URI.

clientSecret

Link to Kubernetes Secret containing the OAuth client secret which the Kafka broker can use to authenticate against the authorization server and use the introspect endpoint URI.

validIssuerUri

string

URI of the token issuer used for authentication.

checkIssuer

boolean

Enable or disable issuer checking. By default issuer is checked using the value configured by validIssuerUri. Default value is true.

checkAudience

boolean

Enable or disable audience checking. Audience checks identify the recipients of tokens. If audience checking is enabled, the OAuth Client ID also has to be configured using the clientId property. The Kafka broker will reject tokens that do not have its clientId in their aud (audience) claim.Default value is false.

jwksEndpointUri

string

URI of the JWKS certificate endpoint, which can be used for local JWT validation.

jwksRefreshSeconds

integer

Configures how often are the JWKS certificates refreshed. The refresh interval has to be at least 60 seconds shorter then the expiry interval specified in jwksExpirySeconds. Defaults to 300 seconds.

jwksMinRefreshPauseSeconds

integer

The minimum pause between two consecutive refreshes. When an unknown signing key is encountered the refresh is scheduled immediately, but will always wait for this minimum pause. Defaults to 1 second.

jwksExpirySeconds

integer

Configures how often are the JWKS certificates considered valid. The expiry interval has to be at least 60 seconds longer then the refresh interval specified in jwksRefreshSeconds. Defaults to 360 seconds.

jwksIgnoreKeyUse

boolean

Flag to ignore the 'use' attribute of key declarations in a JWKS endpoint response. Default value is false.

introspectionEndpointUri

string

URI of the token introspection endpoint which can be used to validate opaque non-JWT tokens.

userNameClaim

string

Name of the claim from the JWT authentication token, Introspection Endpoint response or User Info Endpoint response which will be used to extract the user id. Defaults to sub.

fallbackUserNameClaim

string

The fallback username claim to be used for the user ID if the claim specified by userNameClaim is not present. This is useful when client_credentials authentication only results in the client ID being provided in another claim. It only takes effect if userNameClaim is set.

fallbackUserNamePrefix

string

The prefix to use with the value of fallbackUserNameClaim to construct the user id. This only takes effect if fallbackUserNameClaim is true, and the value is present for the claim. Mapping usernames and client ids into the same user id space is useful in preventing name collisions.

groupsClaim

string

JsonPath query used to extract groups for the user during authentication. Extracted groups can be used by a custom authorizer. By default no groups are extracted.

groupsClaimDelimiter

string

A delimiter used to parse groups when they are extracted as a single String value rather than a JSON array. Default value is ',' (comma).

userInfoEndpointUri

string

URI of the User Info Endpoint to use as a fallback to obtaining the user id when the Introspection Endpoint does not return information that can be used for the user id.

checkAccessTokenType

boolean

Configure whether the access token type check is performed or not. This should be set to false if the authorization server does not include 'typ' claim in JWT token. Defaults to true.

validTokenType

string

Valid value for the token_type attribute returned by the Introspection Endpoint. No default value, and not checked by default.

accessTokenIsJwt

boolean

Configure whether the access token is treated as JWT. This must be set to false if the authorization server returns opaque tokens. Defaults to true.

tlsTrustedCertificates

Trusted certificates for TLS connection to the OAuth server.

disableTlsHostnameVerification

boolean

Enable or disable TLS hostname verification. Default value is false.

enableECDSA

boolean

The enableECDSA property has been deprecated. Enable or disable ECDSA support by installing BouncyCastle crypto provider. ECDSA support is always enabled. The BouncyCastle libraries are no longer packaged with Strimzi. Value is ignored.

maxSecondsWithoutReauthentication

integer

Maximum number of seconds the authenticated session remains valid without re-authentication. This enables Apache Kafka re-authentication feature, and causes sessions to expire when the access token expires. If the access token expires before max time or if max time is reached, the client has to re-authenticate, otherwise the server will drop the connection. Not set by default - the authenticated session does not expire when the access token expires. This option only applies to SASL_OAUTHBEARER authentication mechanism (when enableOauthBearer is true).

enablePlain

boolean

Enable or disable OAuth authentication over SASL_PLAIN. There is no re-authentication support when this mechanism is used. Default value is false.

tokenEndpointUri

string

URI of the Token Endpoint to use with SASL_PLAIN mechanism when the client authenticates with clientId and a secret. If set, the client can authenticate over SASL_PLAIN by either setting username to clientId, and setting password to client secret, or by setting username to account username, and password to access token prefixed with $accessToken:. If this option is not set, the password is always interpreted as an access token (without a prefix), and username as the account username (a so called 'no-client-credentials' mode).

enableOauthBearer

boolean

Enable or disable OAuth authentication over SASL_OAUTHBEARER. Default value is true.

customClaimCheck

string

JsonPath filter query to be applied to the JWT token or to the response of the introspection endpoint for additional token validation. Not set by default.

connectTimeoutSeconds

integer

The connect timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective connect timeout is 60 seconds.

readTimeoutSeconds

integer

The read timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective read timeout is 60 seconds.

httpRetries

integer

The maximum number of retries to attempt if an initial HTTP request fails. If not set, the default is to not attempt any retries.

httpRetryPauseMs

integer

The pause to take before retrying a failed HTTP request. If not set, the default is to not pause at all but to immediately repeat a request.

clientScope

string

The scope to use when making requests to the authorization server’s token endpoint. Used for inter-broker authentication and for configuring OAuth 2.0 over PLAIN using the clientId and secret method.

clientAudience

string

The audience to use when making requests to the authorization server’s token endpoint. Used for inter-broker authentication and for configuring OAuth 2.0 over PLAIN using the clientId and secret method.

enableMetrics

boolean

Enable or disable OAuth metrics. Default value is false.

failFast

boolean

Enable or disable termination of Kafka broker processes due to potentially recoverable runtime errors during startup. Default value is true.

includeAcceptHeader

boolean

Whether the Accept header should be set in requests to the authorization servers. The default value is true.

serverBearerTokenLocation

string

Path to the file on the local filesystem that contains a bearer token to be used instead of client ID and secret when authenticating to authorization server.

userNamePrefix

string

The prefix to use with the value of userNameClaim to construct the user ID. This only takes effect if userNameClaim is specified and the value is present for the claim. When used in combination with fallbackUserNameClaims, it ensures consistent mapping of usernames and client IDs into the same user ID space and prevents name collisions.

10. `GenericSecretSource` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth, KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom, KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth

Property	Property type	Description
key	string	The key under which the secret value is stored in the Kubernetes Secret.
secretName	string	The name of the Kubernetes Secret containing the secret value.

Property

Property type

Description

key

string

The key under which the secret value is stored in the Kubernetes Secret.

secretName

string

The name of the Kubernetes Secret containing the secret value.

11. `CertSecretSource` schema reference

Used in: ClientTls, KafkaAuthorizationKeycloak, KafkaAuthorizationOpa, KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth, KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth

Property	Property type	Description
secretName	string	The name of the Secret containing the certificate.
certificate	string	The name of the file certificate in the secret.
pattern	string	Pattern for the certificate files in the secret. Use the glob syntax for the pattern. All files in the secret that match the pattern are used.

Property

Property type

Description

secretName

string

The name of the Secret containing the certificate.

certificate

string

The name of the file certificate in the secret.

pattern

string

Pattern for the certificate files in the secret. Use the glob syntax for the pattern. All files in the secret that match the pattern are used.

12. `KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom` schema reference

Full list of KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom schema properties

Configures custom authentication for listeners.

To configure custom authentication, set the type property to custom. Custom authentication allows for any type of Kafka-supported authentication to be used.

Example custom OAuth authentication configuration

spec:
  kafka:
    config:
      principal.builder.class: SimplePrincipal.class
    listeners:
      - name: oauth-bespoke
        port: 9093
        type: internal
        tls: true
        authentication:
          type: custom
          sasl: true
          listenerConfig:
            oauthbearer.sasl.client.callback.handler.class: client.class
            oauthbearer.sasl.server.callback.handler.class: server.class
            oauthbearer.sasl.login.callback.handler.class: login.class
            oauthbearer.connections.max.reauth.ms: 999999999
            sasl.enabled.mechanisms: oauthbearer
            oauthbearer.sasl.jaas.config: |
              org.apache.kafka.common.security.oauthbearer.OAuthBearerLoginModule required ;
          secrets:
            - name: example

A protocol map is generated that uses the sasl and tls values to determine which protocol to map to the listener.

SASL = True, TLS = True → SASL_SSL
SASL = False, TLS = True → SSL
SASL = True, TLS = False → SASL_PLAINTEXT
SASL = False, TLS = False → PLAINTEXT

Secrets are mounted to /opt/kafka/custom-authn-secrets/custom-listener-<listener_name>-<port>/<secret_name> in the Kafka broker nodes' containers. For example, the mounted secret (example) in the example configuration would be located at /opt/kafka/custom-authn-secrets/custom-listener-oauth-bespoke-9093/example.

12.1. Setting a custom principal builder

You can set a custom principal builder in the Kafka cluster configuration. However, the principal builder is subject to the following requirements:

The specified principal builder class must exist on the image. Before building your own, check if one already exists. You’ll need to rebuild the Strimzi images with the required classes.
No other listener is using oauth type authentication. This is because an OAuth listener appends its own principle builder to the Kafka configuration.
The specified principal builder is compatible with Strimzi.

Custom principal builders must support peer certificates for authentication, as Strimzi uses these to manage the Kafka cluster.

A custom OAuth principal builder might be identical or very similar to the Strimzi OAuth principal builder.

Note	Kafka’s default principal builder class supports the building of principals based on the names of peer certificates. The custom principal builder should provide a principal of type `user` using the name of the SSL peer certificate.

The following example shows a custom principal builder that satisfies the OAuth requirements of Strimzi.

Example principal builder for custom OAuth configuration

public final class CustomKafkaPrincipalBuilder implements KafkaPrincipalBuilder {

    public KafkaPrincipalBuilder() {}

    @Override
    public KafkaPrincipal build(AuthenticationContext context) {
        if (context instanceof SslAuthenticationContext) {
            SSLSession sslSession = ((SslAuthenticationContext) context).session();
            try {
                return new KafkaPrincipal(
                    KafkaPrincipal.USER_TYPE, sslSession.getPeerPrincipal().getName());
            } catch (SSLPeerUnverifiedException e) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot use an unverified peer for authentication", e);
            }
        }

        // Create your own KafkaPrincipal here
        ...
    }
}

12.2. `KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom` schema properties

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom type from KafkaListenerAuthenticationTls, KafkaListenerAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaListenerAuthenticationOAuth. It must have the value custom for the type KafkaListenerAuthenticationCustom.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `custom`.
sasl	boolean	Enable or disable SASL on this listener.
listenerConfig	map	Configuration to be used for a specific listener. All values are prefixed with `listener.name.<listener_name>`.
secrets	`GenericSecretSource` array	Secrets to be mounted to `/opt/kafka/custom-authn-secrets/custom-listener-<listener_name>-<port>/<secret_name>`.

type

string

Must be custom.

sasl

boolean

Enable or disable SASL on this listener.

listenerConfig

map

Configuration to be used for a specific listener. All values are prefixed with listener.name.<listener_name>.

secrets

GenericSecretSource array

Secrets to be mounted to /opt/kafka/custom-authn-secrets/custom-listener-<listener_name>-<port>/<secret_name>.

13. `GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration` schema reference

Full list of GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration schema properties

Configures Kafka listeners.

13.1. Providing your own listener certificates

The brokerCertChainAndKey property is for listeners that have TLS encryption enabled only. Use this property to provide your own Kafka listener certificates.

Example loadbalancer listener configuration to provide certificates

listeners:
  #...
  - name: external3
    port: 9094
    type: loadbalancer
    tls: true
    configuration:
      brokerCertChainAndKey:
        secretName: my-secret
        certificate: my-listener-certificate.crt
        key: my-listener-key.key
# ...

When the certificate or key in the brokerCertChainAndKey secret is updated, the operator automatically detects it in the next reconciliation and triggers a rolling update of the Kafka brokers to reload the certificate.

13.2. Avoiding hops to other nodes

The externalTrafficPolicy property is used with loadbalancer and nodeport listeners. When exposing Kafka outside of Kubernetes, you can choose Local or Cluster. Local avoids hops to other nodes and preserves the client IP, whereas Cluster does neither. The default is Cluster.

Example loadbalancer listener configuration avoiding hops

listeners:
  #...
  - name: external3
    port: 9094
    type: loadbalancer
    tls: true
    configuration:
      externalTrafficPolicy: Local
# ...

13.3. Providing CIDR source ranges for a loadbalancer

The loadBalancerSourceRanges property is for loadbalancer listeners only. When exposing Kafka outside of Kubernetes, use CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) source ranges in addition to labels and annotations to customize how a service is created.

Example loadbalancer listener configuration to provide source ranges

listeners:
  #...
  - name: external3
    port: 9094
    type: loadbalancer
    tls: true
    configuration:
      loadBalancerSourceRanges:
        - 10.0.0.0/8
        - 88.208.76.87/32
# ...

13.4. Specifying a preferred node port address type

The preferredNodePortAddressType property is for nodeport listeners only. Use this property in your listener configuration to specify the first address type checked as the node address. This property is useful, for example, if your deployment does not have DNS support or you only want to expose a broker internally through an internal DNS or IP address.

If an address of this type is found, it is used. If the preferred address type is not found, Strimzi proceeds through the types in the standard order of priority:

ExternalDNS
ExternalIP
Hostname
InternalDNS
InternalIP

Example nodeport listener using a preferred node port address type

listeners:
  #...
  - name: external4
    port: 9094
    type: nodeport
    tls: false
    configuration:
      preferredNodePortAddressType: InternalDNS
# ...

13.5. Using fully-qualified DNS names

The useServiceDnsDomain property is for internal and cluster-ip listeners. It defines whether the fully-qualified DNS names that include the cluster service suffix (usually .cluster.local) are used.

Set to false (default) to generate advertised addresses without the service suffix; for example, my-cluster-kafka-0.my-cluster-kafka-brokers.myproject.svc.
Set to true to generate advertised addresses with the service suffix; for example, my-cluster-kafka-0.my-cluster-kafka-brokers.myproject.svc.cluster.local.

Example internal listener using the service DNS domain

listeners:
  #...
  - name: plain
    port: 9092
    type: internal
    tls: false
    configuration:
      useServiceDnsDomain: true
# ...

13.6. Specifying the hostname

To specify the hostname used for the bootstrap resource or brokers, use the host property. The host property is for route and ingress listeners only.

A host property value is mandatory for ingress listener configuration, as the Ingress controller does not assign any hostnames automatically. Make sure that the hostname resolves to the Ingress endpoints. Strimzi will not perform any validation to ensure that the requested hosts are available and properly routed to the Ingress endpoints.

Example ingress listener with host configuration

listeners:
  #...
  - name: external2
    port: 9094
    type: ingress
    tls: true
    configuration:
      bootstrap:
        host: bootstrap.myingress.com
      brokers:
      - broker: 0
        host: broker-0.myingress.com
      - broker: 1
        host: broker-1.myingress.com
      - broker: 2
        host: broker-2.myingress.com
# ...

By default, route listener hosts are automatically assigned by OpenShift. However, you can override the assigned route hosts by specifying hosts.

Strimzi does not perform any validation to ensure that the requested hosts are available. You must ensure that they are free and can be used.

Example route listener with host configuration

# ...
listeners:
  #...
  - name: external1
    port: 9094
    type: route
    tls: true
    configuration:
      bootstrap:
        host: bootstrap.myrouter.com
      brokers:
      - broker: 0
        host: broker-0.myrouter.com
      - broker: 1
        host: broker-1.myrouter.com
      - broker: 2
        host: broker-2.myrouter.com
# ...

Instead of specifying the host property for every broker, you can also use a hostTemplate to generate them automatically. The hostTemplate supports the following variables:

The {nodeId} variable is replaced with the ID of the Kafka node to which the template is applied.
The {nodePodName} variable is replaced with the Kubernetes pod name for the Kafka node where the template is applied.

The hostTemplate property applies only to per-broker values. The bootstrap host property must always be specified.

Example ingress listener with hostTemplate configuration

#...
spec:
  kafka:
    #...
    listeners:
      #...
      - name: external2
        port: 9095
        type: ingress
        tls: true
        authentication:
          type: tls
        configuration:
          hostTemplate: broker-{nodeId}.myingress.com
          bootstrap:
            host: bootstrap.myingress.com
  #...

13.7. Overriding assigned node ports

By default, the port numbers used for the bootstrap and broker services are automatically assigned by Kubernetes. You can override the assigned node ports for nodeport listeners by specifying the desired port numbers.

Strimzi does not perform any validation on the requested ports. You must ensure that they are free and available for use.

Example nodeport listener configuration with overrides for node ports

# ...
listeners:
  #...
  - name: external4
    port: 9094
    type: nodeport
    tls: true
    configuration:
      bootstrap:
        nodePort: 32100
      brokers:
      - broker: 0
        nodePort: 32000
      - broker: 1
        nodePort: 32001
      - broker: 2
        nodePort: 32002
# ...

13.8. Requesting a specific loadbalancer IP address

Use the loadBalancerIP property to request a specific IP address when creating a loadbalancer. This property is useful when you need to use a loadbalancer with a specific IP address. The loadBalancerIP property is ignored if the cloud provider does not support this feature.

Example loadbalancer listener with specific IP addresses

# ...
listeners:
  #...
  - name: external3
    port: 9094
    type: loadbalancer
    tls: true
    configuration:
      bootstrap:
        loadBalancerIP: 172.29.3.10
      brokers:
      - broker: 0
        loadBalancerIP: 172.29.3.1
      - broker: 1
        loadBalancerIP: 172.29.3.2
      - broker: 2
        loadBalancerIP: 172.29.3.3
# ...

13.9. Adding listener annotations to Kubernetes resources

Use the annotations property to add annotations to Kubernetes resources related to the listeners. These annotations can be used, for example, to instrument DNS tooling such as External DNS, which automatically assigns DNS names to the loadbalancer services.

Example loadbalancer listener using annotations

# ...
listeners:
  #...
  - name: external3
    port: 9094
    type: loadbalancer
    tls: true
    configuration:
      bootstrap:
        annotations:
          external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname: kafka-bootstrap.mydomain.com.
          external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/ttl: "60"
      brokers:
      - broker: 0
        annotations:
          external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname: kafka-broker-0.mydomain.com.
          external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/ttl: "60"
      - broker: 1
        annotations:
          external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname: kafka-broker-1.mydomain.com.
          external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/ttl: "60"
      - broker: 2
        annotations:
          external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname: kafka-broker-2.mydomain.com.
          external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/ttl: "60"
# ...

13.10. `GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration` schema properties

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
brokerCertChainAndKey	`CertAndKeySecretSource`	Reference to the `Secret` which holds the certificate and private key pair which will be used for this listener. The certificate can optionally contain the whole chain. This field can be used only with listeners with enabled TLS encryption.
class	string	Configures a specific class for `Ingress` and `LoadBalancer` that defines which controller is used. If not specified, the default controller is used. For an `ingress` listener, the operator uses this property to set the `ingressClassName` property in the `Ingress` resources. For a `loadbalancer` listener, the operator uses this property to set the `loadBalancerClass` property in the `Service` resources. For `ingress` and `loadbalancer` listeners only.
externalTrafficPolicy	string (one of [Local, Cluster])	Specifies whether the service routes external traffic to cluster-wide or node-local endpoints: `Cluster` may cause a second hop to another node and obscures the client source IP. `Local` avoids a second hop for `LoadBalancer` and `Nodeport` type services and preserves the client source IP (when supported by the infrastructure). If unspecified, Kubernetes uses `Cluster` as the default. For `loadbalancer` or `nodeport` listeners only.
loadBalancerSourceRanges	string array	A list of CIDR ranges (for example `10.0.0.0/8` or `130.211.204.1/32`) from which clients can connect to loadbalancer listeners. If supported by the platform, traffic through the loadbalancer is restricted to the specified CIDR ranges. This field is applicable only for loadbalancer type services and is ignored if the cloud provider does not support the feature. For `loadbalancer` listeners only.
bootstrap	`GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBootstrap`	Bootstrap configuration.
brokers	`GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBroker` array	Per-broker configurations.
ipFamilyPolicy	string (one of [RequireDualStack, SingleStack, PreferDualStack])	Specifies the IP Family Policy used by the service. Available options are `SingleStack`, `PreferDualStack` and `RequireDualStack`: `SingleStack` is for a single IP family. `PreferDualStack` is for two IP families on dual-stack configured clusters or a single IP family on single-stack clusters. `RequireDualStack` fails unless there are two IP families on dual-stack configured clusters. If unspecified, Kubernetes will choose the default value based on the service type.
ipFamilies	string (one or more of [IPv6, IPv4]) array	Specifies the IP Families used by the service. Available options are `IPv4` and `IPv6`. If unspecified, Kubernetes will choose the default value based on the `ipFamilyPolicy` setting.
createBootstrapService	boolean	Whether to create the bootstrap service or not. The bootstrap service is created by default (if not specified differently). This field can be used with the `loadbalancer` listener.
finalizers	string array	A list of finalizers configured for the `LoadBalancer` type services created for this listener. If supported by the platform, the finalizer `service.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-cleanup` to make sure that the external load balancer is deleted together with the service.For more information, see https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/create-external-load-balancer/#garbage-collecting-load-balancers. For `loadbalancer` listeners only.
useServiceDnsDomain	boolean	Configures whether the Kubernetes service DNS domain should be included in the generated addresses. If set to `false`, the generated addresses do not contain the service DNS domain suffix. For example, `my-cluster-kafka-0.my-cluster-kafka-brokers.myproject.svc`. If set to `true`, the generated addresses contain the service DNS domain suffix. For example, `my-cluster-kafka-0.my-cluster-kafka-brokers.myproject.svc.cluster.local`. The default is `.cluster.local`, but this is customizable using the environment variable `KUBERNETES_SERVICE_DNS_DOMAIN`. For `internal` and `cluster-ip` listeners only.
maxConnections	integer	The maximum number of connections we allow for this listener in the broker at any time. New connections are blocked if the limit is reached.
maxConnectionCreationRate	integer	The maximum connection creation rate we allow in this listener at any time. New connections will be throttled if the limit is reached.
preferredNodePortAddressType	string (one of [ExternalDNS, ExternalIP, Hostname, InternalIP, InternalDNS])	Defines which address type should be used as the node address. Available types are: `ExternalDNS`, `ExternalIP`, `InternalDNS`, `InternalIP` and `Hostname`. By default, the addresses are used in the following order (the first one found is used): `ExternalDNS` `ExternalIP` `InternalDNS` `InternalIP` `Hostname` This property is used to select the preferred address type, which is checked first. If no address is found for this address type, the other types are checked in the default order.For `nodeport` listeners only.
publishNotReadyAddresses	boolean	Configures whether the service endpoints are considered "ready" even if the Pods themselves are not. Defaults to `false`. This field can not be used with `internal` listeners.
hostTemplate	string	Configures the template for generating the hostnames of the individual brokers. Valid placeholders that you can use in the template are `{nodeId}` and `{nodePodName}`.
advertisedHostTemplate	string	Configures the template for generating the advertised hostnames of the individual brokers. Valid placeholders that you can use in the template are `{nodeId}` and `{nodePodName}`.
allocateLoadBalancerNodePorts	boolean	Configures whether to allocate NodePort automatically for the `Service` with type `LoadBalancer`. This is a one to one with the `spec.allocateLoadBalancerNodePorts` configuration in the `Service` type For `loadbalancer` listeners only.

brokerCertChainAndKey

CertAndKeySecretSource

Reference to the Secret which holds the certificate and private key pair which will be used for this listener. The certificate can optionally contain the whole chain. This field can be used only with listeners with enabled TLS encryption.

class

string

Configures a specific class for Ingress and LoadBalancer that defines which controller is used. If not specified, the default controller is used.

For an ingress listener, the operator uses this property to set the ingressClassName property in the Ingress resources.
For a loadbalancer listener, the operator uses this property to set the loadBalancerClass property in the Service resources.

For ingress and loadbalancer listeners only.

externalTrafficPolicy

string (one of [Local, Cluster])

Specifies whether the service routes external traffic to cluster-wide or node-local endpoints:

Cluster may cause a second hop to another node and obscures the client source IP.
Local avoids a second hop for LoadBalancer and Nodeport type services and preserves the client source IP (when supported by the infrastructure).

If unspecified, Kubernetes uses Cluster as the default. For loadbalancer or nodeport listeners only.

loadBalancerSourceRanges

string array

A list of CIDR ranges (for example 10.0.0.0/8 or 130.211.204.1/32) from which clients can connect to loadbalancer listeners. If supported by the platform, traffic through the loadbalancer is restricted to the specified CIDR ranges. This field is applicable only for loadbalancer type services and is ignored if the cloud provider does not support the feature. For loadbalancer listeners only.

bootstrap

GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBootstrap

Bootstrap configuration.

brokers

GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBroker array

Per-broker configurations.

ipFamilyPolicy

string (one of [RequireDualStack, SingleStack, PreferDualStack])

Specifies the IP Family Policy used by the service. Available options are SingleStack, PreferDualStack and RequireDualStack:

SingleStack is for a single IP family.
PreferDualStack is for two IP families on dual-stack configured clusters or a single IP family on single-stack clusters.
RequireDualStack fails unless there are two IP families on dual-stack configured clusters.

If unspecified, Kubernetes will choose the default value based on the service type.

ipFamilies

string (one or more of [IPv6, IPv4]) array

Specifies the IP Families used by the service. Available options are IPv4 and IPv6. If unspecified, Kubernetes will choose the default value based on the ipFamilyPolicy setting.

createBootstrapService

boolean

Whether to create the bootstrap service or not. The bootstrap service is created by default (if not specified differently). This field can be used with the loadbalancer listener.

finalizers

string array

A list of finalizers configured for the LoadBalancer type services created for this listener. If supported by the platform, the finalizer service.kubernetes.io/load-balancer-cleanup to make sure that the external load balancer is deleted together with the service.For more information, see https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/create-external-load-balancer/#garbage-collecting-load-balancers. For loadbalancer listeners only.

useServiceDnsDomain

boolean

Configures whether the Kubernetes service DNS domain should be included in the generated addresses.

If set to false, the generated addresses do not contain the service DNS domain suffix. For example, my-cluster-kafka-0.my-cluster-kafka-brokers.myproject.svc.
If set to true, the generated addresses contain the service DNS domain suffix. For example, my-cluster-kafka-0.my-cluster-kafka-brokers.myproject.svc.cluster.local.

The default is .cluster.local, but this is customizable using the environment variable KUBERNETES_SERVICE_DNS_DOMAIN. For internal and cluster-ip listeners only.

maxConnections

integer

The maximum number of connections we allow for this listener in the broker at any time. New connections are blocked if the limit is reached.

maxConnectionCreationRate

integer

The maximum connection creation rate we allow in this listener at any time. New connections will be throttled if the limit is reached.

preferredNodePortAddressType

string (one of [ExternalDNS, ExternalIP, Hostname, InternalIP, InternalDNS])

Defines which address type should be used as the node address. Available types are: ExternalDNS, ExternalIP, InternalDNS, InternalIP and Hostname. By default, the addresses are used in the following order (the first one found is used):

ExternalDNS
ExternalIP
InternalDNS
InternalIP
Hostname

This property is used to select the preferred address type, which is checked first. If no address is found for this address type, the other types are checked in the default order.For nodeport listeners only.

publishNotReadyAddresses

boolean

Configures whether the service endpoints are considered "ready" even if the Pods themselves are not. Defaults to false. This field can not be used with internal listeners.

hostTemplate

string

Configures the template for generating the hostnames of the individual brokers. Valid placeholders that you can use in the template are {nodeId} and {nodePodName}.

advertisedHostTemplate

string

Configures the template for generating the advertised hostnames of the individual brokers. Valid placeholders that you can use in the template are {nodeId} and {nodePodName}.

allocateLoadBalancerNodePorts

boolean

Configures whether to allocate NodePort automatically for the Service with type LoadBalancer. This is a one to one with the spec.allocateLoadBalancerNodePorts configuration in the Service type For loadbalancer listeners only.

14. `CertAndKeySecretSource` schema reference

Used in: GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration, KafkaClientAuthenticationTls

Property	Property type	Description
secretName	string	The name of the Secret containing the certificate.
certificate	string	The name of the file certificate in the Secret.
key	string	The name of the private key in the Secret.

Property

Property type

Description

secretName

string

The name of the Secret containing the certificate.

certificate

string

The name of the file certificate in the Secret.

key

string

The name of the private key in the Secret.

15. `GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBootstrap` schema reference

Used in: GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration

Full list of GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBootstrap schema properties

Configures bootstrap service settings for listeners.

Example configuration for the host, nodePort, loadBalancerIP, and annotations properties is shown in the GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration schema section.

15.1. Specifying alternative bootstrap addresses

To specify alternative names for the bootstrap address, use the alternativeNames property. This property is applicable to all types of listeners. The names are added to the broker certificates and can be used for TLS hostname verification.

Example route listener configuration with additional bootstrap addresses

listeners:
  #...
  - name: external1
    port: 9094
    type: route
    tls: true
    configuration:
      bootstrap:
        alternativeNames:
          - example.hostname1
          - example.hostname2
# ...

15.2. `GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBootstrap` schema properties

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
alternativeNames	string array	Additional alternative names for the bootstrap service. The alternative names will be added to the list of subject alternative names of the TLS certificates.
host	string	Specifies the hostname used for the bootstrap resource. For `route` (optional) or `ingress` (required) listeners only. Ensure the hostname resolves to the Ingress endpoints; no validation is performed by Strimzi.
nodePort	integer	Node port for the bootstrap service. For `nodeport` listeners only.
loadBalancerIP	string	The loadbalancer is requested with the IP address specified in this property. This feature depends on whether the underlying cloud provider supports specifying the `loadBalancerIP` when a load balancer is created. This property is ignored if the cloud provider does not support the feature. For `loadbalancer` listeners only.
annotations	map	Annotations added to `Ingress`, `Route`, or `Service` resources. You can use this property to configure DNS providers such as External DNS. For `loadbalancer`, `nodeport`, `route`, or `ingress` listeners only.
labels	map	Labels added to `Ingress`, `Route`, or `Service` resources. For `loadbalancer`, `nodeport`, `route`, or `ingress` listeners only.
externalIPs	string array	External IPs associated to the nodeport service. These IPs are used by clients external to the Kubernetes cluster to access the Kafka brokers. This property is helpful when `nodeport` without `externalIP` is not sufficient. For example on bare-metal Kubernetes clusters that do not support Loadbalancer service types. For `nodeport` listeners only.

alternativeNames

string array

Additional alternative names for the bootstrap service. The alternative names will be added to the list of subject alternative names of the TLS certificates.

host

string

Specifies the hostname used for the bootstrap resource. For route (optional) or ingress (required) listeners only. Ensure the hostname resolves to the Ingress endpoints; no validation is performed by Strimzi.

nodePort

integer

Node port for the bootstrap service. For nodeport listeners only.

loadBalancerIP

string

The loadbalancer is requested with the IP address specified in this property. This feature depends on whether the underlying cloud provider supports specifying the loadBalancerIP when a load balancer is created. This property is ignored if the cloud provider does not support the feature. For loadbalancer listeners only.

annotations

map

Annotations added to Ingress, Route, or Service resources. You can use this property to configure DNS providers such as External DNS. For loadbalancer, nodeport, route, or ingress listeners only.

labels

map

Labels added to Ingress, Route, or Service resources. For loadbalancer, nodeport, route, or ingress listeners only.

externalIPs

string array

External IPs associated to the nodeport service. These IPs are used by clients external to the Kubernetes cluster to access the Kafka brokers. This property is helpful when nodeport without externalIP is not sufficient. For example on bare-metal Kubernetes clusters that do not support Loadbalancer service types. For nodeport listeners only.

16. `GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBroker` schema reference

Used in: GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration

Full list of GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBroker schema properties

Configures broker settings for listeners.

Example configuration for the host, nodePort, loadBalancerIP, and annotations properties is shown in the GenericKafkaListenerConfiguration schema section.

16.1. Overriding advertised addresses for brokers

By default, Strimzi tries to automatically determine the hostnames and ports that your Kafka cluster advertises to its clients. This is not sufficient in all situations, because the infrastructure on which Strimzi is running might not provide the right hostname or port through which Kafka can be accessed.

You can specify a broker ID and customize the advertised hostname and port in the configuration property of the listener. Strimzi will then automatically configure the advertised address in the Kafka brokers and add it to the broker certificates so it can be used for TLS hostname verification. Overriding the advertised host and ports is available for all types of listeners.

Example of an external route listener configured with overrides for advertised addresses

listeners:
  #...
  - name: external1
    port: 9094
    type: route
    tls: true
    configuration:
      brokers:
      - broker: 0
        advertisedHost: example.hostname.0
        advertisedPort: 12340
      - broker: 1
        advertisedHost: example.hostname.1
        advertisedPort: 12341
      - broker: 2
        advertisedHost: example.hostname.2
        advertisedPort: 12342
# ...

Instead of specifying the advertisedHost field for every broker, you can also use an advertisedHostTemplate to generate them automatically. The advertisedHostTemplate supports the following variables:

The {nodeId} variable is replaced with the ID of the Kafka node to which the template is applied.
The {nodePodName} variable is replaced with the Kubernetes pod name for the Kafka node where the template is applied.

Example route listener with advertisedHostTemplate configuration

listeners:
  #...
  - name: external1
    port: 9094
    type: route
    tls: true
    configuration:
      advertisedHostTemplate: example.hostname.{nodeId}
# ...

16.2. `GenericKafkaListenerConfigurationBroker` schema properties

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
broker	integer	ID of the kafka broker (broker identifier). Broker IDs start from 0 and correspond to the number of broker replicas.
advertisedHost	string	The host name used in the brokers' `advertised.listeners`.
advertisedPort	integer	The port number used in the brokers' `advertised.listeners`.
host	string	The broker host. This field will be used in the Ingress resource or in the Route resource to specify the desired hostname. This field can be used only with `route` (optional) or `ingress` (required) type listeners.
nodePort	integer	Node port for the per-broker service. This field can be used only with `nodeport` type listener.
loadBalancerIP	string	The loadbalancer is requested with the IP address specified in this field. This feature depends on whether the underlying cloud provider supports specifying the `loadBalancerIP` when a load balancer is created. This field is ignored if the cloud provider does not support the feature.This field can be used only with `loadbalancer` type listener.
annotations	map	Annotations that will be added to the `Ingress` or `Service` resource. You can use this field to configure DNS providers such as External DNS. This field can be used only with `loadbalancer`, `nodeport`, or `ingress` type listeners.
labels	map	Labels that will be added to the `Ingress`, `Route`, or `Service` resource. This field can be used only with `loadbalancer`, `nodeport`, `route`, or `ingress` type listeners.
externalIPs	string array	External IPs associated to the nodeport service. These IPs are used by clients external to the Kubernetes cluster to access the Kafka brokers. This field is helpful when `nodeport` without `externalIP` is not sufficient. For example on bare-metal Kubernetes clusters that do not support Loadbalancer service types. This field can only be used with `nodeport` type listener.

broker

integer

ID of the kafka broker (broker identifier). Broker IDs start from 0 and correspond to the number of broker replicas.

advertisedHost

string

The host name used in the brokers' advertised.listeners.

advertisedPort

integer

The port number used in the brokers' advertised.listeners.

host

string

The broker host. This field will be used in the Ingress resource or in the Route resource to specify the desired hostname. This field can be used only with route (optional) or ingress (required) type listeners.

nodePort

integer

Node port for the per-broker service. This field can be used only with nodeport type listener.

loadBalancerIP

string

The loadbalancer is requested with the IP address specified in this field. This feature depends on whether the underlying cloud provider supports specifying the loadBalancerIP when a load balancer is created. This field is ignored if the cloud provider does not support the feature.This field can be used only with loadbalancer type listener.

annotations

map

Annotations that will be added to the Ingress or Service resource. You can use this field to configure DNS providers such as External DNS. This field can be used only with loadbalancer, nodeport, or ingress type listeners.

labels

map

Labels that will be added to the Ingress, Route, or Service resource. This field can be used only with loadbalancer, nodeport, route, or ingress type listeners.

externalIPs

string array

External IPs associated to the nodeport service. These IPs are used by clients external to the Kubernetes cluster to access the Kafka brokers. This field is helpful when nodeport without externalIP is not sufficient. For example on bare-metal Kubernetes clusters that do not support Loadbalancer service types. This field can only be used with nodeport type listener.

17. `EphemeralStorage` schema reference

Used in: JbodStorage, KafkaClusterSpec, KafkaNodePoolSpec, ZookeeperClusterSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the EphemeralStorage type from PersistentClaimStorage. It must have the value ephemeral for the type EphemeralStorage.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
id	integer	Storage identification number. It is mandatory only for storage volumes defined in a storage of type 'jbod'.
sizeLimit	string	When type=ephemeral, defines the total amount of local storage required for this EmptyDir volume (for example 1Gi).
type	string	Must be `ephemeral`.
kraftMetadata	string (one of [shared])	Specifies whether this volume should be used for storing KRaft metadata. This property is optional. When set, the only currently supported value is `shared`. At most one volume can have this property set.

integer

Storage identification number. It is mandatory only for storage volumes defined in a storage of type 'jbod'.

sizeLimit

string

When type=ephemeral, defines the total amount of local storage required for this EmptyDir volume (for example 1Gi).

type

string

Must be ephemeral.

kraftMetadata

string (one of [shared])

Specifies whether this volume should be used for storing KRaft metadata. This property is optional. When set, the only currently supported value is shared. At most one volume can have this property set.

18. `PersistentClaimStorage` schema reference

Used in: JbodStorage, KafkaClusterSpec, KafkaNodePoolSpec, ZookeeperClusterSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the PersistentClaimStorage type from EphemeralStorage. It must have the value persistent-claim for the type PersistentClaimStorage.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
id	integer	Storage identification number. It is mandatory only for storage volumes defined in a storage of type 'jbod'.
type	string	Must be `persistent-claim`.
size	string	When `type=persistent-claim`, defines the size of the persistent volume claim, such as 100Gi. Mandatory when `type=persistent-claim`.
kraftMetadata	string (one of [shared])	Specifies whether this volume should be used for storing KRaft metadata. This property is optional. When set, the only currently supported value is `shared`. At most one volume can have this property set.
class	string	The storage class to use for dynamic volume allocation.
selector	map	Specifies a specific persistent volume to use. It contains key:value pairs representing labels for selecting such a volume.
deleteClaim	boolean	Specifies if the persistent volume claim has to be deleted when the cluster is un-deployed.
overrides	`PersistentClaimStorageOverride` array	The `overrides` property has been deprecated. The storage overrides for individual brokers are deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please use multiple `KafkaNodePool` custom resources with different storage classes instead. Overrides for individual brokers. The `overrides` field allows you to specify a different configuration for different brokers.

integer

Storage identification number. It is mandatory only for storage volumes defined in a storage of type 'jbod'.

type

string

Must be persistent-claim.

size

string

When type=persistent-claim, defines the size of the persistent volume claim, such as 100Gi. Mandatory when type=persistent-claim.

kraftMetadata

string (one of [shared])

class

string

The storage class to use for dynamic volume allocation.

selector

map

Specifies a specific persistent volume to use. It contains key:value pairs representing labels for selecting such a volume.

deleteClaim

boolean

Specifies if the persistent volume claim has to be deleted when the cluster is un-deployed.

overrides

PersistentClaimStorageOverride array

The overrides property has been deprecated. The storage overrides for individual brokers are deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please use multiple KafkaNodePool custom resources with different storage classes instead. Overrides for individual brokers. The overrides field allows you to specify a different configuration for different brokers.

19. `PersistentClaimStorageOverride` schema reference

Used in: PersistentClaimStorage

Property	Property type	Description
class	string	The storage class to use for dynamic volume allocation for this broker.
broker	integer	Id of the kafka broker (broker identifier).

Property

Property type

Description

class

string

The storage class to use for dynamic volume allocation for this broker.

broker

integer

Id of the kafka broker (broker identifier).

20. `JbodStorage` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec, KafkaNodePoolSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the JbodStorage type from EphemeralStorage, PersistentClaimStorage. It must have the value jbod for the type JbodStorage.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `jbod`.
volumes	`EphemeralStorage`, `PersistentClaimStorage` array	List of volumes as Storage objects representing the JBOD disks array.

type

string

Must be jbod.

volumes

EphemeralStorage, PersistentClaimStorage array

List of volumes as Storage objects representing the JBOD disks array.

21. `KafkaAuthorizationSimple` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

Full list of KafkaAuthorizationSimple schema properties

Configures the Kafka custom resource to use simple authorization and define Access Control Lists (ACLs).

ACLs allow you to define which users have access to which resources at a granular level.

Strimzi uses Kafka’s built-in authorization plugins as follows:

StandardAuthorizer for Kafka in KRaft mode
AclAuthorizer for ZooKeeper-based Kafka

Set the type property in the authorization section to the value simple, and configure a list of super users. Super users are always allowed without querying ACL rules.

Access rules are configured for the KafkaUser, as described in the ACLRule schema reference.

Example simple authorization configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
  namespace: myproject
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    authorization:
      type: simple
      superUsers:
        - CN=user-1
        - user-2
        - CN=user-3
    # ...

Note	The `super.user` configuration option in the `config` property in `Kafka.spec.kafka` is ignored. Designate super users in the `authorization` property instead.

21.1. `KafkaAuthorizationSimple` schema properties

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaAuthorizationSimple type from KafkaAuthorizationOpa, KafkaAuthorizationKeycloak, KafkaAuthorizationCustom. It must have the value simple for the type KafkaAuthorizationSimple.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `simple`.
superUsers	string array	List of super users. Should contain list of user principals which should get unlimited access rights.

type

string

Must be simple.

superUsers

string array

List of super users. Should contain list of user principals which should get unlimited access rights.

22. `KafkaAuthorizationOpa` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

Full list of KafkaAuthorizationOpa schema properties

Configures the Kafka custom resource to use Open Policy Agent authorization.

To use Open Policy Agent authorization, set the type property in the authorization section to the value opa, and configure OPA properties as required. Strimzi uses the Open Policy Agent plugin for Kafka authorization as the authorizer. For more information about the format of the input data and policy examples, see Open Policy Agent plugin for Kafka authorization.

Example Open Policy Agent authorizer configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
  namespace: myproject
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    authorization:
      type: opa
      url: http://opa:8181/v1/data/kafka/allow
      allowOnError: false
      initialCacheCapacity: 1000
      maximumCacheSize: 10000
      expireAfterMs: 60000
      superUsers:
        - CN=user-1
        - user-2
        - CN=user-3
    # ...

22.1. `KafkaAuthorizationOpa` schema properties

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaAuthorizationOpa type from KafkaAuthorizationSimple, KafkaAuthorizationKeycloak, KafkaAuthorizationCustom. It must have the value opa for the type KafkaAuthorizationOpa.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `opa`.
url	string	The URL used to connect to the Open Policy Agent server. The URL has to include the policy which will be queried by the authorizer. This option is required.
allowOnError	boolean	Defines whether a Kafka client should be allowed or denied by default when the authorizer fails to query the Open Policy Agent, for example, when it is temporarily unavailable). Defaults to `false` - all actions will be denied.
initialCacheCapacity	integer	Initial capacity of the local cache used by the authorizer to avoid querying the Open Policy Agent for every request Defaults to `5000`.
maximumCacheSize	integer	Maximum capacity of the local cache used by the authorizer to avoid querying the Open Policy Agent for every request. Defaults to `50000`.
expireAfterMs	integer	The expiration of the records kept in the local cache to avoid querying the Open Policy Agent for every request. Defines how often the cached authorization decisions are reloaded from the Open Policy Agent server. In milliseconds. Defaults to `3600000`.
tlsTrustedCertificates	`CertSecretSource` array	Trusted certificates for TLS connection to the OPA server.
superUsers	string array	List of super users, which is specifically a list of user principals that have unlimited access rights.
enableMetrics	boolean	Defines whether the Open Policy Agent authorizer plugin should provide metrics. Defaults to `false`.

type

string

Must be opa.

url

string

The URL used to connect to the Open Policy Agent server. The URL has to include the policy which will be queried by the authorizer. This option is required.

allowOnError

boolean

Defines whether a Kafka client should be allowed or denied by default when the authorizer fails to query the Open Policy Agent, for example, when it is temporarily unavailable). Defaults to false - all actions will be denied.

initialCacheCapacity

integer

Initial capacity of the local cache used by the authorizer to avoid querying the Open Policy Agent for every request Defaults to 5000.

maximumCacheSize

integer

Maximum capacity of the local cache used by the authorizer to avoid querying the Open Policy Agent for every request. Defaults to 50000.

expireAfterMs

integer

The expiration of the records kept in the local cache to avoid querying the Open Policy Agent for every request. Defines how often the cached authorization decisions are reloaded from the Open Policy Agent server. In milliseconds. Defaults to 3600000.

tlsTrustedCertificates

Trusted certificates for TLS connection to the OPA server.

superUsers

string array

List of super users, which is specifically a list of user principals that have unlimited access rights.

enableMetrics

boolean

Defines whether the Open Policy Agent authorizer plugin should provide metrics. Defaults to false.

23. `KafkaAuthorizationKeycloak` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaAuthorizationKeycloak type from KafkaAuthorizationSimple, KafkaAuthorizationOpa, KafkaAuthorizationCustom. It must have the value keycloak for the type KafkaAuthorizationKeycloak.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `keycloak`.
clientId	string	OAuth Client ID which the Kafka client can use to authenticate against the OAuth server and use the token endpoint URI.
tokenEndpointUri	string	Authorization server token endpoint URI.
tlsTrustedCertificates	`CertSecretSource` array	Trusted certificates for TLS connection to the OAuth server.
disableTlsHostnameVerification	boolean	Enable or disable TLS hostname verification. Default value is `false`.
delegateToKafkaAcls	boolean	Whether authorization decision should be delegated to the 'Simple' authorizer if DENIED by Keycloak Authorization Services policies. Default value is `false`.
grantsRefreshPeriodSeconds	integer	The time between two consecutive grants refresh runs in seconds. The default value is 60.
grantsRefreshPoolSize	integer	The number of threads to use to refresh grants for active sessions. The more threads, the more parallelism, so the sooner the job completes. However, using more threads places a heavier load on the authorization server. The default value is 5.
grantsMaxIdleTimeSeconds	integer	The time, in seconds, after which an idle grant can be evicted from the cache. The default value is 300.
grantsGcPeriodSeconds	integer	The time, in seconds, between consecutive runs of a job that cleans stale grants from the cache. The default value is 300.
grantsAlwaysLatest	boolean	Controls whether the latest grants are fetched for a new session. When enabled, grants are retrieved from Keycloak and cached for the user. The default value is `false`.
superUsers	string array	List of super users. Should contain list of user principals which should get unlimited access rights.
connectTimeoutSeconds	integer	The connect timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective connect timeout is 60 seconds.
readTimeoutSeconds	integer	The read timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective read timeout is 60 seconds.
httpRetries	integer	The maximum number of retries to attempt if an initial HTTP request fails. If not set, the default is to not attempt any retries.
enableMetrics	boolean	Enable or disable OAuth metrics. The default value is `false`.
includeAcceptHeader	boolean	Whether the Accept header should be set in requests to the authorization servers. The default value is `true`.

type

string

Must be keycloak.

clientId

string

OAuth Client ID which the Kafka client can use to authenticate against the OAuth server and use the token endpoint URI.

tokenEndpointUri

string

Authorization server token endpoint URI.

tlsTrustedCertificates

Full list of KafkaAuthorizationCustom schema properties

Trusted certificates for TLS connection to the OAuth server.

disableTlsHostnameVerification

boolean

Enable or disable TLS hostname verification. Default value is false.

delegateToKafkaAcls

boolean

Whether authorization decision should be delegated to the 'Simple' authorizer if DENIED by Keycloak Authorization Services policies. Default value is false.

grantsRefreshPeriodSeconds

integer

The time between two consecutive grants refresh runs in seconds. The default value is 60.

grantsRefreshPoolSize

integer

The number of threads to use to refresh grants for active sessions. The more threads, the more parallelism, so the sooner the job completes. However, using more threads places a heavier load on the authorization server. The default value is 5.

grantsMaxIdleTimeSeconds

integer

The time, in seconds, after which an idle grant can be evicted from the cache. The default value is 300.

grantsGcPeriodSeconds

integer

The time, in seconds, between consecutive runs of a job that cleans stale grants from the cache. The default value is 300.

grantsAlwaysLatest

boolean

Controls whether the latest grants are fetched for a new session. When enabled, grants are retrieved from Keycloak and cached for the user. The default value is false.

superUsers

string array

List of super users. Should contain list of user principals which should get unlimited access rights.

connectTimeoutSeconds

integer

The connect timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective connect timeout is 60 seconds.

readTimeoutSeconds

integer

The read timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective read timeout is 60 seconds.

httpRetries

integer

The maximum number of retries to attempt if an initial HTTP request fails. If not set, the default is to not attempt any retries.

enableMetrics

boolean

Enable or disable OAuth metrics. The default value is false.

includeAcceptHeader

boolean

Whether the Accept header should be set in requests to the authorization servers. The default value is true.

24. `KafkaAuthorizationCustom` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

Configures the Kafka custom resource to use a custom authorizer and define Access Control Lists (ACLs).

ACLs allow you to define which users have access to which resources at a granular level. Configure the Kafka custom resource to specify an authorizer class that implements the org.apache.kafka.server.authorizer.Authorizer interface to support custom ACLs. Set the type property in the authorization section to the value custom, and configure a list of super users. Super users are always allowed without querying ACL rules. Add additional configuration for initializing the custom authorizer using Kafka.spec.kafka.config.

Example custom authorization configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
  namespace: myproject
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    authorization:
      type: custom
      authorizerClass: io.mycompany.CustomAuthorizer
      superUsers:
        - CN=user-1
        - user-2
        - CN=user-3
    # ...
    config:
      authorization.custom.property1=value1
      authorization.custom.property2=value2
    # ...

Note	The `super.user` configuration option in the `config` property in `Kafka.spec.kafka` is ignored. Designate super users in the `authorization` property instead.

24.1. Adding custom authorizer JAR files to the container image

In addition to the Kafka custom resource configuration, the JAR files containing the custom authorizer class along with its dependencies must be available on the classpath of the Kafka broker.

You can add them by building Strimzi from the source-code. The Strimzi build process provides a mechanism to add custom third-party libraries to the generated Kafka broker container image by adding them as dependencies in the pom.xml file under the docker-images/artifacts/kafka-thirdparty-libs directory. The directory contains different folders for different Kafka versions. Choose the appropriate folder. Before modifying the pom.xml file, the third-party library must be available in a Maven repository, and that Maven repository must be accessible to the Strimzi build process.

Alternatively, you can add the JARs to an existing Strimzi container image:

FROM quay.io/strimzi/kafka:latest-kafka-3.9.0
USER root:root
COPY ./my-authorizer/ /opt/kafka/libs/
USER 1001

24.2. Using custom authorizers with OAuth authentication

When using oauth authentication with a groupsClaim configuration to extract user group information from JWT tokens, group information can be used in custom authorization calls. Groups are accessible through the OAuthKafkaPrincipal object during custom authorization calls, as follows:

    public List<AuthorizationResult> authorize(AuthorizableRequestContext requestContext, List<Action> actions) {

        KafkaPrincipal principal = requestContext.principal();
        if (principal instanceof OAuthKafkaPrincipal) {
            OAuthKafkaPrincipal p = (OAuthKafkaPrincipal) principal;

            for (String group: p.getGroups()) {
                System.out.println("Group: " + group);
            }
        }
    }

24.3. `KafkaAuthorizationCustom` schema properties

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaAuthorizationCustom type from KafkaAuthorizationSimple, KafkaAuthorizationOpa, KafkaAuthorizationKeycloak. It must have the value custom for the type KafkaAuthorizationCustom.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `custom`.
authorizerClass	string	Authorization implementation class, which must be available in classpath.
superUsers	string array	List of super users, which are user principals with unlimited access rights.
supportsAdminApi	boolean	Indicates whether the custom authorizer supports the APIs for managing ACLs using the Kafka Admin API. Defaults to `false`.

type

string

Must be custom.

authorizerClass

string

Authorization implementation class, which must be available in classpath.

superUsers

string array

List of super users, which are user principals with unlimited access rights.

supportsAdminApi

boolean

Indicates whether the custom authorizer supports the APIs for managing ACLs using the Kafka Admin API. Defaults to false.

25. `Rack` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaClusterSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec

Full list of Rack schema properties

The rack option configures rack awareness. A rack can represent an availability zone, data center, or an actual rack in your data center. The rack is configured through a topologyKey. topologyKey identifies a label on Kubernetes nodes that contains the name of the topology in its value. An example of such a label is topology.kubernetes.io/zone (or failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone on older Kubernetes versions), which contains the name of the availability zone in which the Kubernetes node runs. You can configure your Kafka cluster to be aware of the rack in which it runs, and enable additional features such as spreading partition replicas across different racks or consuming messages from the closest replicas.

For more information about Kubernetes node labels, see Well-Known Labels, Annotations and Taints. Consult your Kubernetes administrator regarding the node label that represents the zone or rack into which the node is deployed.

25.1. Spreading partition replicas across racks

When rack awareness is configured, Strimzi will set broker.rack configuration for each Kafka broker. The broker.rack configuration assigns a rack ID to each broker. When broker.rack is configured, Kafka brokers will spread partition replicas across as many different racks as possible. When replicas are spread across multiple racks, the probability that multiple replicas will fail at the same time is lower than if they would be in the same rack. Spreading replicas improves resiliency, and is important for availability and reliability. To enable rack awareness in Kafka, add the rack option to the .spec.kafka section of the Kafka custom resource as shown in the example below.

Example rack configuration for Kafka

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    rack:
      topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone
    # ...

Note

The rack in which brokers are running can change in some cases when the pods are deleted or restarted. As a result, the replicas running in different racks might then share the same rack. Use Cruise Control and the KafkaRebalance resource with the RackAwareGoal to make sure that replicas remain distributed across different racks.

When rack awareness is enabled in the Kafka custom resource, Strimzi will automatically add the Kubernetes preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution affinity rule to distribute the Kafka brokers across the different racks. However, the preferred rule does not guarantee that the brokers will be spread. Depending on your exact Kubernetes and Kafka configurations, you should add additional affinity rules or configure topologySpreadConstraints for both ZooKeeper and Kafka to make sure the nodes are properly distributed accross as many racks as possible. For more information see Configuring pod scheduling.

25.2. Consuming messages from the closest replicas

Rack awareness can also be used in consumers to fetch data from the closest replica. This is useful for reducing the load on your network when a Kafka cluster spans multiple datacenters and can also reduce costs when running Kafka in public clouds. However, it can lead to increased latency.

In order to be able to consume from the closest replica, rack awareness has to be configured in the Kafka cluster, and the RackAwareReplicaSelector has to be enabled. The replica selector plugin provides the logic that enables clients to consume from the nearest replica. The default implementation uses LeaderSelector to always select the leader replica for the client. Specify RackAwareReplicaSelector for the replica.selector.class to switch from the default implementation.

Example rack configuration with enabled replica-aware selector

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    rack:
      topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone
    config:
      # ...
      replica.selector.class: org.apache.kafka.common.replica.RackAwareReplicaSelector
    # ...

In addition to the Kafka broker configuration, you also need to specify the client.rack option in your consumers. The client.rack option should specify the rack ID in which the consumer is running. RackAwareReplicaSelector associates matching broker.rack and client.rack IDs, to find the nearest replica and consume from it. If there are multiple replicas in the same rack, RackAwareReplicaSelector always selects the most up-to-date replica. If the rack ID is not specified, or if it cannot find a replica with the same rack ID, it will fall back to the leader replica.

Figure 1. Example showing client consuming from replicas in the same availability zone

You can also configure Kafka Connect, MirrorMaker 2 and Kafka Bridge so that connectors consume messages from the closest replicas. You enable rack awareness in the KafkaConnect, KafkaMirrorMaker2, and KafkaBridge custom resources. The configuration does does not set affinity rules, but you can also configure affinity or topologySpreadConstraints. For more information see Configuring pod scheduling.

When deploying Kafka Connect using Strimzi, you can use the rack section in the KafkaConnect custom resource to automatically configure the client.rack option.

Example rack configuration for Kafka Connect

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
# ...
spec:
  # ...
  rack:
    topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone
  # ...

When deploying MirrorMaker 2 using Strimzi, you can use the rack section in the KafkaMirrorMaker2 custom resource to automatically configure the client.rack option.

Example rack configuration for MirrorMaker 2

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaMirrorMaker2
# ...
spec:
  # ...
  rack:
    topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone
  # ...

When deploying Kafka Bridge using Strimzi, you can use the rack section in the KafkaBridge custom resource to automatically configure the client.rack option.

Example rack configuration for Kafka Bridge

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaBridge
# ...
spec:
  # ...
  rack:
    topologyKey: topology.kubernetes.io/zone
  # ...

25.3. `Rack` schema properties

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
topologyKey	string	A key that matches labels assigned to the Kubernetes cluster nodes. The value of the label is used to set a broker’s `broker.rack` config, and the `client.rack` config for Kafka Connect or MirrorMaker 2.

topologyKey

string

A key that matches labels assigned to the Kubernetes cluster nodes. The value of the label is used to set a broker’s broker.rack config, and the client.rack config for Kafka Connect or MirrorMaker 2.

26. `Probe` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlSpec, EntityTopicOperatorSpec, EntityUserOperatorSpec, KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaClusterSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaExporterSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec, KafkaMirrorMakerSpec, TlsSidecar, ZookeeperClusterSpec

Property	Property type	Description
initialDelaySeconds	integer	The initial delay before first the health is first checked. Default to 15 seconds. Minimum value is 0.
timeoutSeconds	integer	The timeout for each attempted health check. Default to 5 seconds. Minimum value is 1.
periodSeconds	integer	How often (in seconds) to perform the probe. Default to 10 seconds. Minimum value is 1.
successThreshold	integer	Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed. Defaults to 1. Must be 1 for liveness. Minimum value is 1.
failureThreshold	integer	Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded. Defaults to 3. Minimum value is 1.

Property

Property type

Description

initialDelaySeconds

integer

The initial delay before first the health is first checked. Default to 15 seconds. Minimum value is 0.

timeoutSeconds

integer

The timeout for each attempted health check. Default to 5 seconds. Minimum value is 1.

periodSeconds

integer

How often (in seconds) to perform the probe. Default to 10 seconds. Minimum value is 1.

successThreshold

integer

Minimum consecutive successes for the probe to be considered successful after having failed. Defaults to 1. Must be 1 for liveness. Minimum value is 1.

failureThreshold

integer

Minimum consecutive failures for the probe to be considered failed after having succeeded. Defaults to 3. Minimum value is 1.

27. `JvmOptions` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlSpec, EntityTopicOperatorSpec, EntityUserOperatorSpec, KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaClusterSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec, KafkaMirrorMakerSpec, KafkaNodePoolSpec, ZookeeperClusterSpec

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
-XX	map	A map of -XX options to the JVM.
-Xmx	string	-Xmx option to to the JVM.
-Xms	string	-Xms option to to the JVM.
gcLoggingEnabled	boolean	Specifies whether the Garbage Collection logging is enabled. The default is false.
javaSystemProperties	`SystemProperty` array	A map of additional system properties which will be passed using the `-D` option to the JVM.

-XX

map

A map of -XX options to the JVM.

-Xmx

string

-Xmx option to to the JVM.

-Xms

string

-Xms option to to the JVM.

gcLoggingEnabled

boolean

Specifies whether the Garbage Collection logging is enabled. The default is false.

javaSystemProperties

SystemProperty array

A map of additional system properties which will be passed using the -D option to the JVM.

28. `SystemProperty` schema reference

Used in: JvmOptions

Property	Property type	Description
name	string	The system property name.
value	string	The system property value.

Property

Property type

Description

name

string

The system property name.

value

string

The system property value.

29. `KafkaJmxOptions` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec, ZookeeperClusterSpec

Full list of KafkaJmxOptions schema properties

Configures JMX connection options.

Get JMX metrics from Kafka brokers, ZooKeeper nodes, Kafka Connect, and MirrorMaker 2. by connecting to port 9999. Use the jmxOptions property to configure a password-protected or an unprotected JMX port. Using password protection prevents unauthorized pods from accessing the port.

You can then obtain metrics about the component.

For example, for each Kafka broker you can obtain bytes-per-second usage data from clients, or the request rate of the network of the broker.

To enable security for the JMX port, set the type parameter in the authentication field to password.

Example password-protected JMX configuration for Kafka brokers and ZooKeeper nodes

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    jmxOptions:
      authentication:
        type: "password"
    # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
    jmxOptions:
      authentication:
        type: "password"
    #...

You can then deploy a pod into a cluster and obtain JMX metrics using the headless service by specifying which broker you want to address.

For example, to get JMX metrics from broker 0 you specify:

"CLUSTER-NAME-kafka-0.CLUSTER-NAME-kafka-brokers"

CLUSTER-NAME-kafka-0 is name of the broker pod, and CLUSTER-NAME-kafka-brokers is the name of the headless service to return the IPs of the broker pods.

If the JMX port is secured, you can get the username and password by referencing them from the JMX Secret in the deployment of your pod.

For an unprotected JMX port, use an empty object {} to open the JMX port on the headless service. You deploy a pod and obtain metrics in the same way as for the protected port, but in this case any pod can read from the JMX port.

Example open port JMX configuration for Kafka brokers and ZooKeeper nodes

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    jmxOptions: {}
    # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
    jmxOptions: {}
    # ...

Additional resources

For more information on the Kafka component metrics exposed using JMX, see the Apache Kafka documentation.

29.1. `KafkaJmxOptions` schema properties

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
authentication	`KafkaJmxAuthenticationPassword`	Authentication configuration for connecting to the JMX port.

authentication

KafkaJmxAuthenticationPassword

Authentication configuration for connecting to the JMX port.

30. `KafkaJmxAuthenticationPassword` schema reference

Used in: KafkaJmxOptions

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaJmxAuthenticationPassword type from other subtypes which may be added in the future. It must have the value password for the type KafkaJmxAuthenticationPassword.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `password`.

type

string

Must be password.

31. `JmxPrometheusExporterMetrics` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlSpec, KafkaClusterSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec, KafkaMirrorMakerSpec, ZookeeperClusterSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the JmxPrometheusExporterMetrics type from other subtypes which may be added in the future. It must have the value jmxPrometheusExporter for the type JmxPrometheusExporterMetrics.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `jmxPrometheusExporter`.
valueFrom	`ExternalConfigurationReference`	ConfigMap entry where the Prometheus JMX Exporter configuration is stored.

type

string

Must be jmxPrometheusExporter.

valueFrom

ExternalConfigurationReference

ConfigMap entry where the Prometheus JMX Exporter configuration is stored.

32. `ExternalConfigurationReference` schema reference

Used in: ExternalLogging, JmxPrometheusExporterMetrics

Property	Property type	Description
configMapKeyRef	ConfigMapKeySelector	Reference to the key in the ConfigMap containing the configuration.

Property

Property type

Description

configMapKeyRef

ConfigMapKeySelector

Reference to the key in the ConfigMap containing the configuration.

33. `InlineLogging` schema reference

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the InlineLogging type from ExternalLogging. It must have the value inline for the type InlineLogging.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `inline`.
loggers	map	A Map from logger name to logger level.

type

string

Must be inline.

loggers

map

A Map from logger name to logger level.

34. `ExternalLogging` schema reference

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the ExternalLogging type from InlineLogging. It must have the value external for the type ExternalLogging.

Property Property type Description

Property	Property type	Description
type	string	Must be `external`.
valueFrom	`ExternalConfigurationReference`	`ConfigMap` entry where the logging configuration is stored.

type

string

Must be external.

valueFrom

ExternalConfigurationReference

ConfigMap entry where the logging configuration is stored.

35. `KafkaClusterTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

Property Property type Description

statefulset

StatefulSetTemplate

The statefulset property has been deprecated. Support for StatefulSets was removed in Strimzi 0.35.0. This property is ignored. Template for Kafka StatefulSet.

pod

Template for Kafka Pods.

bootstrapService

Template for Kafka bootstrap Service.

brokersService

Template for Kafka broker Service.

externalBootstrapService

Template for Kafka external bootstrap Service.

perPodService

Template for Kafka per-pod Services used for access from outside of Kubernetes.

externalBootstrapRoute

Template for Kafka external bootstrap Route.

perPodRoute

Template for Kafka per-pod Routes used for access from outside of OpenShift.

externalBootstrapIngress

Template for Kafka external bootstrap Ingress.

perPodIngress

Template for Kafka per-pod Ingress used for access from outside of Kubernetes.

persistentVolumeClaim

Template for all Kafka PersistentVolumeClaims.

podDisruptionBudget

Template for Kafka PodDisruptionBudget.

kafkaContainer

Template for the Kafka broker container.

initContainer

Template for the Kafka init container.

clusterCaCert

Template for Secret with Kafka Cluster certificate public key.

serviceAccount

Template for the Kafka service account.

jmxSecret

Template for Secret of the Kafka Cluster JMX authentication.

clusterRoleBinding

Template for the Kafka ClusterRoleBinding.

podSet

Template for Kafka StrimziPodSet resource.

36. `StatefulSetTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterTemplate, ZookeeperClusterTemplate

Property Property type Description

metadata

Full list of MetadataTemplate schema properties

Metadata applied to the resource.

podManagementPolicy

string (one of [OrderedReady, Parallel])

PodManagementPolicy which will be used for this StatefulSet. Valid values are Parallel and OrderedReady. Defaults to Parallel.

37. `MetadataTemplate` schema reference

Used in: BuildConfigTemplate, DeploymentTemplate, InternalServiceTemplate, PodDisruptionBudgetTemplate, PodTemplate, ResourceTemplate, StatefulSetTemplate

Labels and Annotations are used to identify and organize resources, and are configured in the metadata property.

For example:

# ...
template:
  pod:
    metadata:
      labels:
        label1: value1
        label2: value2
      annotations:
        annotation1: value1
        annotation2: value2
# ...

The labels and annotations fields can contain any labels or annotations that do not contain the reserved string strimzi.io. Labels and annotations containing strimzi.io are used internally by Strimzi and cannot be configured.

37.1. `MetadataTemplate` schema properties

Property

Property type

Description

labels

map

Labels added to the Kubernetes resource.

annotations

map

Annotations added to the Kubernetes resource.

38. `PodTemplate` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlTemplate, EntityOperatorTemplate, JmxTransTemplate, KafkaBridgeTemplate, KafkaClusterTemplate, KafkaConnectTemplate, KafkaExporterTemplate, KafkaMirrorMakerTemplate, KafkaNodePoolTemplate, ZookeeperClusterTemplate

Full list of PodTemplate schema properties

Configures the template for Kafka pods.

Example PodTemplate configuration

# ...
template:
  pod:
    metadata:
      labels:
        label1: value1
      annotations:
        anno1: value1
    imagePullSecrets:
      - name: my-docker-credentials
    securityContext:
      runAsUser: 1000001
      fsGroup: 0
    terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 120
    hostAliases:
      - ip: "192.168.1.86"
        hostnames:
        - "my-host-1"
        - "my-host-2"
    #...

Use the hostAliases property to a specify a list of hosts and IP addresses, which are injected into the /etc/hosts file of the pod. This configuration is especially useful for Kafka Connect or MirrorMaker when a connection outside of the cluster is also requested by users.

38.1. `PodTemplate` schema properties

Property Property type Description

metadata

PersistentVolumeClaimVolumeSource

Metadata applied to the resource.

imagePullSecrets

LocalObjectReference array

List of references to secrets in the same namespace to use for pulling any of the images used by this Pod. When the STRIMZI_IMAGE_PULL_SECRETS environment variable in Cluster Operator and the imagePullSecrets option are specified, only the imagePullSecrets variable is used and the STRIMZI_IMAGE_PULL_SECRETS variable is ignored.

securityContext

PodSecurityContext

Configures pod-level security attributes and common container settings.

terminationGracePeriodSeconds

integer

The grace period is the duration in seconds after the processes running in the pod are sent a termination signal, and the time when the processes are forcibly halted with a kill signal. Set this value to longer than the expected cleanup time for your process. Value must be a non-negative integer. A zero value indicates delete immediately. You might need to increase the grace period for very large Kafka clusters, so that the Kafka brokers have enough time to transfer their work to another broker before they are terminated. Defaults to 30 seconds.

affinity

Affinity

The pod’s affinity rules.

tolerations

Toleration array

The pod’s tolerations.

topologySpreadConstraints

TopologySpreadConstraint array

The pod’s topology spread constraints.

priorityClassName

string

The name of the priority class used to assign priority to the pods.

schedulerName

string

The name of the scheduler used to dispatch this Pod. If not specified, the default scheduler will be used.

hostAliases

HostAlias array

The pod’s HostAliases. HostAliases is an optional list of hosts and IPs that will be injected into the Pod’s hosts file if specified.

enableServiceLinks

boolean

Indicates whether information about services should be injected into Pod’s environment variables.

tmpDirSizeLimit

string

Defines the total amount of pod memory allocated for the temporary EmptyDir volume /tmp. Specify the allocation in memory units, for example, 100Mi for 100 mebibytes. Default value is 5Mi. The /tmp volume is backed by pod memory, not disk storage, so avoid setting a high value as it consumes pod memory resources.

volumes

AdditionalVolume array

Additional volumes that can be mounted to the pod.

39. `AdditionalVolume` schema reference

Used in: PodTemplate

Property

Property type

Description

name

string

Name to use for the volume. Required.

secret

SecretVolumeSource

Secret to use populate the volume.

configMap

ConfigMapVolumeSource

ConfigMap to use to populate the volume.

emptyDir

EmptyDirVolumeSource

EmptyDir to use to populate the volume.

persistentVolumeClaim

PersistentVolumeClaim object to use to populate the volume.

40. `InternalServiceTemplate` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlTemplate, KafkaBridgeTemplate, KafkaClusterTemplate, KafkaConnectTemplate, ZookeeperClusterTemplate

Property Property type Description

metadata

Metadata applied to the resource.

ipFamilyPolicy

string (one of [RequireDualStack, SingleStack, PreferDualStack])

Specifies the IP Family Policy used by the service. Available options are SingleStack, PreferDualStack and RequireDualStack. SingleStack is for a single IP family. PreferDualStack is for two IP families on dual-stack configured clusters or a single IP family on single-stack clusters. RequireDualStack fails unless there are two IP families on dual-stack configured clusters. If unspecified, Kubernetes will choose the default value based on the service type.

ipFamilies

string (one or more of [IPv6, IPv4]) array

Specifies the IP Families used by the service. Available options are IPv4 and IPv6. If unspecified, Kubernetes will choose the default value based on the ipFamilyPolicy setting.

41. `ResourceTemplate` schema reference

Property Property type Description

metadata

Full list of PodDisruptionBudgetTemplate schema properties

Metadata applied to the resource.

42. `PodDisruptionBudgetTemplate` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlTemplate, KafkaBridgeTemplate, KafkaClusterTemplate, KafkaConnectTemplate, KafkaMirrorMakerTemplate, ZookeeperClusterTemplate

A PodDisruptionBudget (PDB) is a Kubernetes resource that ensures high availability by specifying the minimum number of pods that must be available during planned maintenance or upgrades. Strimzi creates a PDB for every new StrimziPodSet or Deployment. By default, the PDB allows only one pod to be unavailable at any given time. You can increase the number of unavailable pods allowed by changing the default value of the maxUnavailable property.

StrimziPodSet custom resources manage pods using a custom controller that cannot use the maxUnavailable value directly. Instead, the maxUnavailable value is automatically converted to a minAvailable value when creating the PDB resource, which effectively serves the same purpose, as illustrated in the following examples:

If there are three broker pods and the maxUnavailable property is set to 1 in the Kafka resource, the minAvailable setting is 2, allowing one pod to be unavailable.
If there are three broker pods and the maxUnavailable property is set to 0 (zero), the minAvailable setting is 3, requiring all three broker pods to be available and allowing zero pods to be unavailable.

Example PodDisruptionBudget template configuration

# ...
template:
  podDisruptionBudget:
    metadata:
      labels:
        key1: label1
        key2: label2
      annotations:
        key1: label1
        key2: label2
    maxUnavailable: 1
# ...

42.1. `PodDisruptionBudgetTemplate` schema properties

Property Property type Description

metadata

Full list of ContainerTemplate schema properties

Metadata to apply to the PodDisruptionBudgetTemplate resource.

maxUnavailable

integer

Maximum number of unavailable pods to allow automatic Pod eviction. A Pod eviction is allowed when the maxUnavailable number of pods or fewer are unavailable after the eviction. Setting this value to 0 prevents all voluntary evictions, so the pods must be evicted manually. Defaults to 1.

43. `ContainerTemplate` schema reference

You can set custom security context and environment variables for a container.

The environment variables are defined under the env property as a list of objects with name and value fields. The following example shows two custom environment variables and a custom security context set for the Kafka broker containers:

# ...
template:
  kafkaContainer:
    env:
    - name: EXAMPLE_ENV_1
      value: example.env.one
    - name: EXAMPLE_ENV_2
      value: example.env.two
    securityContext:
      runAsUser: 2000
# ...

Environment variables prefixed with KAFKA_ are internal to Strimzi and should be avoided. If you set a custom environment variable that is already in use by Strimzi, it is ignored and a warning is recorded in the log.

43.1. `ContainerTemplate` schema properties

Property Property type Description

env

ContainerEnvVar array

Environment variables which should be applied to the container.

securityContext

SecurityContext

Security context for the container.

volumeMounts

VolumeMount array

Additional volume mounts which should be applied to the container.

44. `ContainerEnvVar` schema reference

Used in: ContainerTemplate

Property Property type Description

name

string

The environment variable key.

value

string

The environment variable value.

valueFrom

ContainerEnvVarSource

Reference to the secret or config map property to which the environment variable is set.

45. `ContainerEnvVarSource` schema reference

Used in: ContainerEnvVar

Property

Property type

Description

secretKeyRef

SecretKeySelector

Reference to a key in a secret.

configMapKeyRef

ConfigMapKeySelector

Reference to a key in a config map.

46. `TieredStorageCustom` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

Full list of TieredStorageCustom schema properties

Enables custom tiered storage for Kafka.

If you want to use custom tiered storage, you must first add a tiered storage for Kafka plugin to the Strimzi image by building a custom container image.

Custom tiered storage configuration enables the use of a custom RemoteStorageManager configuration. RemoteStorageManager is a Kafka interface for managing the interaction between Kafka and remote tiered storage.

If custom tiered storage is enabled, Strimzi uses the TopicBasedRemoteLogMetadataManager for Remote Log Metadata Management (RLMM).

Warning

Tiered storage is an early access Kafka feature, which is also available in Strimzi. Due to its current limitations, it is not recommended for production environments.

Example custom tiered storage configuration

kafka:
  tieredStorage:
    type: custom
    remoteStorageManager:
      className: com.example.kafka.tiered.storage.s3.S3RemoteStorageManager
      classPath: /opt/kafka/plugins/tiered-storage-s3/*
      config:
        # A map with String keys and String values.
        # Key properties are automatically prefixed with `rsm.config.`
        # and appended to Kafka broker config.
        storage.bucket.name: my-bucket
  config:
    ...
    # Additional RLMM configuration can be added through the Kafka config
    # under `spec.kafka.config` using the `rlmm.config.` prefix.
    rlmm.config.remote.log.metadata.topic.replication.factor: 1

46.1. `TieredStorageCustom` schema properties

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the TieredStorageCustom type from other subtypes which may be added in the future. It must have the value custom for the type TieredStorageCustom.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be custom.

remoteStorageManager

RemoteStorageManager

Configuration for the Remote Storage Manager.

47. `RemoteStorageManager` schema reference

Used in: TieredStorageCustom

Property Property type Description

className

string

The class name for the RemoteStorageManager implementation.

classPath

string

The class path for the RemoteStorageManager implementation.

config

map

The additional configuration map for the RemoteStorageManager implementation. Keys will be automatically prefixed with rsm.config., and added to Kafka broker configuration.

48. `QuotasPluginKafka` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the QuotasPluginKafka type from QuotasPluginStrimzi. It must have the value kafka for the type QuotasPluginKafka.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be kafka.

producerByteRate

integer

The default client quota on the maximum bytes per-second that each client can publish to each broker before it is throttled. Applied on a per-broker basis.

consumerByteRate

integer

The default client quota on the maximum bytes per-second that each client can fetch from each broker before it is throttled. Applied on a per-broker basis.

requestPercentage

integer

The default client quota limits the maximum CPU utilization of each client as a percentage of the network and I/O threads of each broker. Applied on a per-broker basis.

controllerMutationRate

number

The default client quota on the rate at which mutations are accepted per second for create topic requests, create partition requests, and delete topic requests, defined for each broker. The mutations rate is measured by the number of partitions created or deleted. Applied on a per-broker basis.

49. `QuotasPluginStrimzi` schema reference

Used in: KafkaClusterSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the QuotasPluginStrimzi type from QuotasPluginKafka. It must have the value strimzi for the type QuotasPluginStrimzi.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be strimzi.

producerByteRate

integer

A per-broker byte-rate quota for clients producing to a broker, independent of their number. If clients produce at maximum speed, the quota is shared equally between all non-excluded producers. Otherwise, the quota is divided based on each client’s production rate.

consumerByteRate

integer

A per-broker byte-rate quota for clients consuming from a broker, independent of their number. If clients consume at maximum speed, the quota is shared equally between all non-excluded consumers. Otherwise, the quota is divided based on each client’s consumption rate.

minAvailableBytesPerVolume

integer

Stop message production if the available size (in bytes) of the storage is lower than or equal to this specified value. This condition is mutually exclusive with minAvailableRatioPerVolume.

minAvailableRatioPerVolume

number

Stop message production if the percentage of available storage space falls below or equals the specified ratio (set as a decimal representing a percentage). This condition is mutually exclusive with minAvailableBytesPerVolume.

excludedPrincipals

string array

List of principals that are excluded from the quota. The principals have to be prefixed with User:, for example User:my-user;User:CN=my-other-user.

50. `ZookeeperClusterSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaSpec

Full list of ZookeeperClusterSpec schema properties

Configures a ZooKeeper cluster.

The config properties are one part of the overall configuration for the resource. Use the config properties to configure ZooKeeper options as keys.

Example ZooKeeper configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
    config:
      autopurge.snapRetainCount: 3
      autopurge.purgeInterval: 2
    # ...

The values can be one of the following JSON types:

String
Number
Boolean

Exceptions

You can specify and configure the options listed in the ZooKeeper documentation.

However, Strimzi takes care of configuring and managing options related to the following, which cannot be changed:

Security (encryption, authentication, and authorization)
Listener configuration
Configuration of data directories
ZooKeeper cluster composition

Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set:

4lw.commands.whitelist
authProvider
clientPort
dataDir
dataLogDir
quorum.auth
reconfigEnabled
requireClientAuthScheme
secureClientPort
server.
snapshot.trust.empty
standaloneEnabled
serverCnxnFactory
ssl.
sslQuorum

If the config property contains an option that cannot be changed, it is disregarded, and a warning message is logged to the Cluster Operator log file. All other supported options are forwarded to ZooKeeper, including the following exceptions to the options configured by Strimzi:

Any ssl configuration for supported TLS versions and cipher suites

50.1. Logging

ZooKeeper has a configurable logger:

zookeeper.root.logger

ZooKeeper uses the Apache log4j logger implementation.

Use the logging property to configure loggers and logger levels.

Inline logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
spec:
  # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
    logging:
      type: inline
      loggers:
        zookeeper.root.logger: INFO
        log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper.server.FinalRequestProcessor: TRACE
        log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer: DEBUG
    # ...

Note	Setting a log level to `DEBUG` may result in a large amount of log output and may have performance implications.

External logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
spec:
  # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
    logging:
      type: external
      valueFrom:
        configMapKeyRef:
          name: customConfigMap
          key: zookeeper-log4j.properties
  # ...

Garbage collector (GC)

Garbage collector logging can also be enabled (or disabled) using the jvmOptions property.

50.2. `ZookeeperClusterSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

replicas

integer

The number of pods in the cluster.

image

string

The container image used for ZooKeeper pods. If no image name is explicitly specified, it is determined based on the Kafka version set in spec.kafka.version. The image names are specifically mapped to corresponding versions in the Cluster Operator configuration.

storage

EphemeralStorage, PersistentClaimStorage

Storage configuration (disk). Cannot be updated.

config

map

The ZooKeeper broker config. Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set: server., dataDir, dataLogDir, clientPort, authProvider, quorum.auth, requireClientAuthScheme, snapshot.trust.empty, standaloneEnabled, reconfigEnabled, 4lw.commands.whitelist, secureClientPort, ssl., serverCnxnFactory, sslQuorum (with the exception of: ssl.protocol, ssl.quorum.protocol, ssl.enabledProtocols, ssl.quorum.enabledProtocols, ssl.ciphersuites, ssl.quorum.ciphersuites, ssl.hostnameVerification, ssl.quorum.hostnameVerification).

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking.

jvmOptions

JVM Options for pods.

jmxOptions

JMX Options for Zookeeper nodes.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

metricsConfig

Metrics configuration.

logging

ZookeeperClusterTemplate

Logging configuration for ZooKeeper.

template

Template for ZooKeeper cluster resources. The template allows users to specify how the Kubernetes resources are generated.

51. `ZookeeperClusterTemplate` schema reference

Used in: ZookeeperClusterSpec

Property Property type Description

statefulset

StatefulSetTemplate

The statefulset property has been deprecated. Support for StatefulSets was removed in Strimzi 0.35.0. This property is ignored. Template for ZooKeeper StatefulSet.

podSet

Template for ZooKeeper StrimziPodSet resource.

pod

Template for ZooKeeper Pods.

clientService

Template for ZooKeeper client Service.

nodesService

Template for ZooKeeper nodes Service.

persistentVolumeClaim

Template for all ZooKeeper PersistentVolumeClaims.

podDisruptionBudget

Template for ZooKeeper PodDisruptionBudget.

zookeeperContainer

Template for the ZooKeeper container.

serviceAccount

Template for the ZooKeeper service account.

jmxSecret

EntityTopicOperatorSpec

Template for Secret of the Zookeeper Cluster JMX authentication.

52. `EntityOperatorSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaSpec

Property Property type Description

topicOperator

Configuration of the Topic Operator.

userOperator

EntityUserOperatorSpec

Configuration of the User Operator.

tlsSidecar

TlsSidecar

The tlsSidecar property has been deprecated. TLS sidecar was removed in Strimzi 0.41.0. This property is ignored. TLS sidecar configuration.

template

EntityOperatorTemplate

Template for Entity Operator resources. The template allows users to specify how a Deployment and Pod is generated.

53. `EntityTopicOperatorSpec` schema reference

Used in: EntityOperatorSpec

Full list of EntityTopicOperatorSpec schema properties

Configures the Topic Operator.

53.1. Logging

The Topic Operator has a configurable logger:

rootLogger.level

The Topic Operator uses the Apache log4j2 logger implementation.

Use the logging property in the entityOperator.topicOperator field of the Kafka resource Kafka resource to configure loggers and logger levels.

You can set the log levels by specifying the logger and level directly (inline) or use a custom (external) ConfigMap. If a ConfigMap is used, you set logging.valueFrom.configMapKeyRef.name property to the name of the ConfigMap containing the external logging configuration. Inside the ConfigMap, the logging configuration is described using log4j2.properties. Both logging.valueFrom.configMapKeyRef.name and logging.valueFrom.configMapKeyRef.key properties are mandatory. A ConfigMap using the exact logging configuration specified is created with the custom resource when the Cluster Operator is running, then recreated after each reconciliation. If you do not specify a custom ConfigMap, default logging settings are used. If a specific logger value is not set, upper-level logger settings are inherited for that logger. For more information about log levels, see Apache logging services.

Inline logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
  entityOperator:
    # ...
    topicOperator:
      watchedNamespace: my-topic-namespace
      reconciliationIntervalMs: 60000
      logging:
        type: inline
        loggers:
          rootLogger.level: INFO
          logger.top.name: io.strimzi.operator.topic # (1)
          logger.top.level: DEBUG # (2)
          logger.toc.name: io.strimzi.operator.topic.TopicOperator # (3)
          logger.toc.level: TRACE # (4)
          logger.clients.level: DEBUG # (5)
  # ...

Creates a logger for the topic package.
Sets the logging level for the topic package.
Creates a logger for the TopicOperator class.
Sets the logging level for the TopicOperator class.
Changes the logging level for the default clients logger. The clients logger is part of the logging configuration provided with Strimzi. By default, it is set to INFO.

Note	When investigating an issue with the operator, it’s usually sufficient to change the `rootLogger` to `DEBUG` to get more detailed logs. However, keep in mind that setting the log level to `DEBUG` may result in a large amount of log output and may have performance implications.

External logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
  entityOperator:
    # ...
    topicOperator:
      watchedNamespace: my-topic-namespace
      reconciliationIntervalMs: 60000
      logging:
        type: external
        valueFrom:
          configMapKeyRef:
            name: customConfigMap
            key: topic-operator-log4j2.properties
  # ...

Garbage collector (GC)

Garbage collector logging can also be enabled (or disabled) using the jvmOptions property.

53.2. `EntityTopicOperatorSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

watchedNamespace

string

The namespace the Topic Operator should watch.

image

string

The image to use for the Topic Operator.

reconciliationIntervalSeconds

integer

The reconciliationIntervalSeconds property has been deprecated, and should now be configured using .spec.entityOperator.topicOperator.reconciliationIntervalMs. Interval between periodic reconciliations in seconds. Ignored if reconciliationIntervalMs is set.

reconciliationIntervalMs

integer

Interval between periodic reconciliations in milliseconds.

zookeeperSessionTimeoutSeconds

integer

The zookeeperSessionTimeoutSeconds property has been deprecated. This property is not used anymore in Strimzi 0.41.0 and it is ignored. Timeout for the ZooKeeper session.

startupProbe

Pod startup checking.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

topicMetadataMaxAttempts

integer

The topicMetadataMaxAttempts property has been deprecated. This property is not used anymore in Strimzi 0.41.0 and it is ignored. The number of attempts at getting topic metadata.

logging

Logging configuration.

jvmOptions

Full list of EntityUserOperatorSpec schema properties

JVM Options for pods.

54. `EntityUserOperatorSpec` schema reference

Used in: EntityOperatorSpec

Configures the User Operator.

54.1. Logging

The User Operator has a configurable logger:

rootLogger.level

The User Operator uses the Apache log4j2 logger implementation.

Use the logging property in the entityOperator.userOperator field of the Kafka resource to configure loggers and logger levels.

You can set the log levels by specifying the logger and level directly (inline) or use a custom (external) ConfigMap. If a ConfigMap is used, you set logging.valueFrom.configMapKeyRef.name property to the name of the ConfigMap containing the external logging configuration. Inside the ConfigMap, the logging configuration is described using log4j2.properties. Both logging.valueFrom.configMapKeyRef.name and logging.valueFrom.configMapKeyRef.key properties are mandatory. A ConfigMap using the exact logging configuration specified is created with the custom resource when the Cluster Operator is running, then recreated after each reconciliation. If you do not specify a custom ConfigMap, default logging settings are used. If a specific logger value is not set, upper-level logger settings are inherited for that logger. For more information about log levels, see Apache logging services.

Here we see examples of inline and external logging. The inline logging specifies the rootLogger.level. You can also set log levels for specific classes or loggers by adding them to the loggers property.

Inline logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
  entityOperator:
    # ...
    userOperator:
      watchedNamespace: my-topic-namespace
      reconciliationIntervalMs: 60000
      logging:
        type: inline
        loggers:
          rootLogger.level: INFO
          logger.uop.name: io.strimzi.operator.user # (1)
          logger.uop.level: DEBUG # (2)
          logger.abstractcache.name: io.strimzi.operator.user.operator.cache.AbstractCache # (3)
          logger.abstractcache.level: TRACE # (4)
          logger.jetty.level: DEBUG # (5)

  # ...

Creates a logger for the user package.
Sets the logging level for the user package.
Creates a logger for the AbstractCache class.
Sets the logging level for the AbstractCache class.
Changes the logging level for the default jetty logger. The jetty logger is part of the logging configuration provided with Strimzi. By default, it is set to INFO.

Note	When investigating an issue with the operator, it’s usually sufficient to change the `rootLogger` to `DEBUG` to get more detailed logs. However, keep in mind that setting the log level to `DEBUG` may result in a large amount of log output and may have performance implications.

External logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
  zookeeper:
    # ...
  entityOperator:
    # ...
    userOperator:
      watchedNamespace: my-topic-namespace
      reconciliationIntervalMs: 60000
      logging:
        type: external
        valueFrom:
          configMapKeyRef:
            name: customConfigMap
            key: user-operator-log4j2.properties
   # ...

Garbage collector (GC)

Garbage collector logging can also be enabled (or disabled) using the jvmOptions property.

54.2. `EntityUserOperatorSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

watchedNamespace

string

The namespace the User Operator should watch.

image

string

The image to use for the User Operator.

reconciliationIntervalSeconds

integer

The reconciliationIntervalSeconds property has been deprecated, and should now be configured using .spec.entityOperator.userOperator.reconciliationIntervalMs. Interval between periodic reconciliations in seconds. Ignored if reconciliationIntervalMs is set.

reconciliationIntervalMs

integer

Interval between periodic reconciliations in milliseconds.

zookeeperSessionTimeoutSeconds

integer

The zookeeperSessionTimeoutSeconds property has been deprecated. This property has been deprecated because ZooKeeper is not used anymore by the User Operator. Timeout for the ZooKeeper session.

secretPrefix

string

The prefix that will be added to the KafkaUser name to be used as the Secret name.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

logging

Logging configuration.

jvmOptions

Full list of TlsSidecar schema properties

JVM Options for pods.

55. `TlsSidecar` schema reference

The type TlsSidecar has been deprecated.

Used in: CruiseControlSpec, EntityOperatorSpec

The TLS sidecar type is not used anymore. If set, it will be ignored

55.1. `TlsSidecar` schema properties

Property Property type Description

image

string

The docker image for the container.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking.

logLevel

string (one of [emerg, debug, crit, err, alert, warning, notice, info])

The log level for the TLS sidecar. Default value is notice.

56. `EntityOperatorTemplate` schema reference

Used in: EntityOperatorSpec

Property Property type Description

deployment

Template for Entity Operator Deployment.

pod

Template for Entity Operator Pods.

topicOperatorContainer

Template for the Entity Topic Operator container.

userOperatorContainer

Template for the Entity User Operator container.

tlsSidecarContainer

The tlsSidecarContainer property has been deprecated. TLS sidecar was removed in Strimzi 0.41.0. This property is ignored. Template for the Entity Operator TLS sidecar container.

serviceAccount

Template for the Entity Operator service account.

entityOperatorRole

Template for the Entity Operator Role.

topicOperatorRoleBinding

Template for the Entity Topic Operator RoleBinding.

userOperatorRoleBinding

Full list of DeploymentTemplate schema properties

Template for the Entity Topic Operator RoleBinding.

57. `DeploymentTemplate` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlTemplate, EntityOperatorTemplate, JmxTransTemplate, KafkaBridgeTemplate, KafkaConnectTemplate, KafkaExporterTemplate, KafkaMirrorMakerTemplate

Use deploymentStrategy to specify the strategy used to replace old pods with new ones when deployment configuration changes.

Use one of the following values:

RollingUpdate: Pods are restarted with zero downtime.
Recreate: Pods are terminated before new ones are created.

Using the Recreate deployment strategy has the advantage of not requiring spare resources, but the disadvantage is the application downtime.

Example showing the deployment strategy set to Recreate.

# ...
template:
  deployment:
    deploymentStrategy: Recreate
# ...

This configuration change does not cause a rolling update.

57.1. `DeploymentTemplate` schema properties

Property Property type Description

metadata

Full list of CruiseControlSpec schema properties

Metadata applied to the resource.

deploymentStrategy

string (one of [RollingUpdate, Recreate])

Pod replacement strategy for deployment configuration changes. Valid values are RollingUpdate and Recreate. Defaults to RollingUpdate.

58. `CertificateAuthority` schema reference

Used in: KafkaSpec

Configuration of how TLS certificates are used within the cluster. This applies to certificates used for both internal communication within the cluster and to certificates used for client access via Kafka.spec.kafka.listeners.tls.

Property Property type Description

generateCertificateAuthority

boolean

If true then Certificate Authority certificates will be generated automatically. Otherwise the user will need to provide a Secret with the CA certificate. Default is true.

generateSecretOwnerReference

boolean

If true, the Cluster and Client CA Secrets are configured with the ownerReference set to the Kafka resource. If the Kafka resource is deleted when true, the CA Secrets are also deleted. If false, the ownerReference is disabled. If the Kafka resource is deleted when false, the CA Secrets are retained and available for reuse. Default is true.

validityDays

integer

The number of days generated certificates should be valid for. The default is 365.

renewalDays

integer

The number of days in the certificate renewal period. This is the number of days before the a certificate expires during which renewal actions may be performed. When generateCertificateAuthority is true, this will cause the generation of a new certificate. When generateCertificateAuthority is true, this will cause extra logging at WARN level about the pending certificate expiry. Default is 30.

certificateExpirationPolicy

string (one of [replace-key, renew-certificate])

How should CA certificate expiration be handled when generateCertificateAuthority=true. The default is for a new CA certificate to be generated reusing the existing private key.

59. `CruiseControlSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaSpec

Configures a Cruise Control cluster.

Configuration options relate to:

Goals configuration
Capacity limits for resource distribution goals

The config properties are one part of the overall configuration for the resource. Use the config properties to configure Cruise Control options as keys.

Example Cruise Control configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  # ...
  cruiseControl:
    # ...
    config:
      # Note that `default.goals` (superset) must also include all `hard.goals` (subset)
      default.goals: >
        com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.RackAwareGoal,
        com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.ReplicaCapacityGoal
      hard.goals: >
        com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.RackAwareGoal
      cpu.balance.threshold: 1.1
      metadata.max.age.ms: 300000
      send.buffer.bytes: 131072
      webserver.http.cors.enabled: true
      webserver.http.cors.origin: "*"
      webserver.http.cors.exposeheaders: "User-Task-ID,Content-Type"
    # ...

The values can be one of the following JSON types:

String
Number
Boolean

Exceptions

You can specify and configure the options listed in the Cruise Control documentation.

However, Strimzi takes care of configuring and managing options related to the following, which cannot be changed:

Security (encryption, authentication, and authorization)
Connection to the Kafka cluster
Client ID configuration
ZooKeeper connectivity
Web server configuration
Self healing

Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set:

bootstrap.servers
capacity.config.file
client.id
failed.brokers.zk.path
kafka.broker.failure.detection.enable
metric.reporter.sampler.bootstrap.servers
network.
request.reason.required
security.
self.healing.
ssl.
topic.config.provider.class
two.step.
webserver.accesslog.
webserver.api.urlprefix
webserver.http.
webserver.session.path
zookeeper.

If the config property contains an option that cannot be changed, it is disregarded, and a warning message is logged to the Cluster Operator log file. All other supported options are forwarded to Cruise Control, including the following exceptions to the options configured by Strimzi:

Any ssl configuration for supported TLS versions and cipher suites
Configuration for webserver properties to enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

59.1. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a HTTP mechanism for controlling access to REST APIs. Restrictions can be on access methods or originating URLs of client applications. You can enable CORS with Cruise Control using the webserver.http.cors.enabled property in the config. When enabled, CORS permits read access to the Cruise Control REST API from applications that have different originating URLs than Strimzi. This allows applications from specified origins to use GET requests to fetch information about the Kafka cluster through the Cruise Control API. For example, applications can fetch information on the current cluster load or the most recent optimization proposal. POST requests are not permitted.

Note	For more information on using CORS with Cruise Control, see REST APIs in the Cruise Control Wiki.

Enabling CORS for Cruise Control

You enable and configure CORS in Kafka.spec.cruiseControl.config.

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  # ...
  cruiseControl:
    # ...
    config:
      webserver.http.cors.enabled: true # (1)
      webserver.http.cors.origin: "*" # (2)
      webserver.http.cors.exposeheaders: "User-Task-ID,Content-Type" # (3)

    # ...

Enables CORS.
Specifies permitted origins for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin HTTP response header. You can use a wildcard or specify a single origin as a URL. If you use a wildcard, a response is returned following requests from any origin.
Exposes specified header names for the Access-Control-Expose-Headers HTTP response header. Applications in permitted origins can read responses with the specified headers.

59.2. Cruise Control REST API security

The Cruise Control REST API is secured with HTTP Basic authentication and SSL to protect the cluster against potentially destructive Cruise Control operations, such as decommissioning Kafka brokers. We recommend that Cruise Control in Strimzi is only used with these settings enabled.

However, it is possible to disable these settings by specifying the following Cruise Control configuration:

To disable the built-in HTTP Basic authentication, set webserver.security.enable to false.
To disable the built-in SSL, set webserver.ssl.enable to false.

Cruise Control configuration to disable API authorization, authentication, and SSL

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  # ...
  cruiseControl:
    config:
      webserver.security.enable: false
      webserver.ssl.enable: false
# ...

59.3. API users

With the necessary permissions, create REST API users to safely access a secured Cruise Control REST API directly.

This allows roles and permissions to be defined to allow advanced users and third-party applications to access the Cruise Control REST API without having to disable basic HTTP authentication.

The following use cases would benefit from accessing the Cruise Control API without disabling API security:

Monitoring a Strimzi-managed Kafka cluster with the Cruise Control user interface.
Gathering Cruise Control-specific statistical information not available through Strimzi or Cruise Control sensor metrics, such as detailed information surrounding cluster and partition load and user tasks.
Debugging Cruise Control in a secured environment.

Cruise Control reads authentication credentials for API users in Jetty’s HashLoginService file format.

Standard Cruise Control USER and VIEWER roles are supported.

USER has access to all the GET endpoints except bootstrap and train.
VIEWER has access to kafka_cluster_state, user_tasks, and review_board endpoints.

In this example, we define two custom API users in the supported format in a text file called cruise-control-auth.txt:

userOne: passwordOne, USER
userTwo: passwordTwo, VIEWER

Then, use this file to create a secret with the following command:

kubectl create secret generic cruise-control-api-users-secret  --from-file=cruise-control-auth.txt=cruise-control-auth.txt

Next, we reference the secret in the spec.cruiseControl.apiUsers section of the Kafka resource:

Example Cruise Control apiUsers configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  # ...
  cruiseControl:
    # ...
    apiUsers:
      type: hashLoginService
      valueFrom:
        secretKeyRef:
          name: cruise-control-api-users-secret
          key: cruise-control-auth.txt
     ...

Strimzi then decodes and uses the contents of this secret to populate Cruise Control’s API authentication credentials file.

59.4. Configuring capacity limits

Cruise Control uses capacity limits to determine if optimization goals for resource capacity limits are being broken. There are four goals of this type:

DiskCapacityGoal - Disk utilization capacity
CpuCapacityGoal - CPU utilization capacity
NetworkInboundCapacityGoal - Network inbound utilization capacity
NetworkOutboundCapacityGoal - Network outbound utilization capacity

You specify capacity limits for Kafka broker resources in the brokerCapacity property in Kafka.spec.cruiseControl . They are enabled by default and you can change their default values. Capacity limits can be set for the following broker resources:

cpu - CPU resource in millicores or CPU cores (Default: 1)
inboundNetwork - Inbound network throughput in byte units per second (Default: 10000KiB/s)
outboundNetwork - Outbound network throughput in byte units per second (Default: 10000KiB/s)

For network throughput, use an integer value with standard Kubernetes byte units (K, M, G) or their bibyte (power of two) equivalents (Ki, Mi, Gi) per second.

Note

Disk and CPU capacity limits are automatically generated by Strimzi, so you do not need to set them. In order to guarantee accurate rebalance proposals when using CPU goals, you can set CPU requests equal to CPU limits in Kafka.spec.kafka.resources. That way, all CPU resources are reserved upfront and are always available. This configuration allows Cruise Control to properly evaluate the CPU utilization when preparing the rebalance proposals based on CPU goals. In cases where you cannot set CPU requests equal to CPU limits in Kafka.spec.kafka.resources, you can set the CPU capacity manually for the same accuracy.

Example Cruise Control brokerCapacity configuration using bibyte units

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  # ...
  cruiseControl:
    # ...
    brokerCapacity:
      cpu: "2"
      inboundNetwork: 10000KiB/s
      outboundNetwork: 10000KiB/s
    # ...

59.5. Configuring capacity overrides

Brokers might be running on nodes with heterogeneous network or CPU resources. If that’s the case, specify overrides that set the network capacity and CPU limits for each broker. The overrides ensure an accurate rebalance between the brokers. Override capacity limits can be set for the following broker resources:

cpu - CPU resource in millicores or CPU cores (Default: 1)
inboundNetwork - Inbound network throughput in byte units per second (Default: 10000KiB/s)
outboundNetwork - Outbound network throughput in byte units per second (Default: 10000KiB/s)

An example of Cruise Control capacity overrides configuration using bibyte units

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  # ...
  cruiseControl:
    # ...
    brokerCapacity:
      cpu: "1"
      inboundNetwork: 10000KiB/s
      outboundNetwork: 10000KiB/s
      overrides:
      - brokers: [0]
        cpu: "2.755"
        inboundNetwork: 20000KiB/s
        outboundNetwork: 20000KiB/s
      - brokers: [1, 2]
        cpu: 3000m
        inboundNetwork: 30000KiB/s
        outboundNetwork: 30000KiB/s

CPU capacity is determined using configuration values in the following order of precedence, with the highest priority first:

Kafka.spec.cruiseControl.brokerCapacity.overrides.cpu that define custom CPU capacity limits for individual brokers
Kafka.cruiseControl.brokerCapacity.cpu that defines custom CPU capacity limits for all brokers in the kafka cluster
Kafka.spec.kafka.resources.requests.cpu that defines the CPU resources that are reserved for each broker in the Kafka cluster.
Kafka.spec.kafka.resources.limits.cpu that defines the maximum CPU resources that can be consumed by each broker in the Kafka cluster.

This order of precedence is the sequence in which different configuration values are considered when determining the actual capacity limit for a Kafka broker. For example, broker-specific overrides take precedence over capacity limits for all brokers. If none of the CPU capacity configurations are specified, the default CPU capacity for a Kafka broker is set to 1 CPU core.

For more information, refer to the BrokerCapacity schema reference.

59.6. Logging

Cruise Control has its own configurable logger:

rootLogger.level

Cruise Control uses the Apache log4j2 logger implementation.

Use the logging property to configure loggers and logger levels.

Inline logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
# ...
spec:
  cruiseControl:
    # ...
    logging:
      type: inline
      loggers:
        rootLogger.level: INFO
        logger.exec.name: com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.executor.Executor # (1)
        logger.exec.level: TRACE # (2)
        logger.go.name: com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.GoalOptimizer # (3)
        logger.go.level: DEBUG # (4)
    # ...

Creates a logger for the Cruise Control Executor class.
Sets the logging level for the Executor class.
Creates a logger for the Cruise Control GoalOptimizer class.
Sets the logging level for the GoalOptimizer class.

Note	When investigating an issue with Cruise Control, it’s usually sufficient to change the `rootLogger` to `DEBUG` to get more detailed logs. However, keep in mind that setting the log level to `DEBUG` may result in a large amount of log output and may have performance implications.

External logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: Kafka
# ...
spec:
  cruiseControl:
    # ...
    logging:
      type: external
      valueFrom:
        configMapKeyRef:
          name: customConfigMap
          key: cruise-control-log4j.properties
    # ...

Garbage collector (GC)

Garbage collector logging can also be enabled (or disabled) using the jvmOptions property.

59.7. `CruiseControlSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

image

string

The container image used for Cruise Control pods. If no image name is explicitly specified, the image name corresponds to the name specified in the Cluster Operator configuration. If an image name is not defined in the Cluster Operator configuration, a default value is used.

tlsSidecar

TlsSidecar

The tlsSidecar property has been deprecated. TLS sidecar configuration.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve for the Cruise Control container.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking for the Cruise Control container.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking for the Cruise Control container.

jvmOptions

JVM Options for the Cruise Control container.

logging

Logging configuration (Log4j 2) for Cruise Control.

template

CruiseControlTemplate

Template to specify how Cruise Control resources, Deployments and Pods, are generated.

brokerCapacity

BrokerCapacity

The Cruise Control brokerCapacity configuration.

config

map

The Cruise Control configuration. For a full list of configuration options refer to https://github.com/linkedin/cruise-control/wiki/Configurations. Note that properties with the following prefixes cannot be set: bootstrap.servers, client.id, zookeeper., network., security., failed.brokers.zk.path,webserver.http., webserver.api.urlprefix, webserver.session.path, webserver.accesslog., two.step., request.reason.required,metric.reporter.sampler.bootstrap.servers, capacity.config.file, self.healing., ssl., kafka.broker.failure.detection.enable, topic.config.provider.class (with the exception of: ssl.cipher.suites, ssl.protocol, ssl.enabled.protocols, webserver.http.cors.enabled, webserver.http.cors.origin, webserver.http.cors.exposeheaders, webserver.security.enable, webserver.ssl.enable).

metricsConfig

HashLoginServiceApiUsers

Metrics configuration.

apiUsers

Configuration of the Cruise Control REST API users.

autoRebalance

KafkaAutoRebalanceConfiguration array

Auto-rebalancing on scaling related configuration listing the modes, when brokers are added or removed, with the corresponding rebalance template configurations.If this field is set, at least one mode has to be defined.

60. `CruiseControlTemplate` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlSpec

Property Property type Description

deployment

Template for Cruise Control Deployment.

pod

Template for Cruise Control Pods.

apiService

Template for Cruise Control API Service.

podDisruptionBudget

Template for Cruise Control PodDisruptionBudget.

cruiseControlContainer

Template for the Cruise Control container.

tlsSidecarContainer

The tlsSidecarContainer property has been deprecated. Template for the Cruise Control TLS sidecar container.

serviceAccount

Template for the Cruise Control service account.

61. `BrokerCapacity` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlSpec

Property Property type Description

disk

string

The disk property has been deprecated. The Cruise Control disk capacity setting has been deprecated, is ignored, and will be removed in the future Broker capacity for disk in bytes. Use a number value with either standard Kubernetes byte units (K, M, G, or T), their bibyte (power of two) equivalents (Ki, Mi, Gi, or Ti), or a byte value with or without E notation. For example, 100000M, 100000Mi, 104857600000, or 1e+11.

cpuUtilization

integer

The cpuUtilization property has been deprecated. The Cruise Control CPU capacity setting has been deprecated, is ignored, and will be removed in the future Broker capacity for CPU resource utilization as a percentage (0 - 100).

cpu

string

Broker capacity for CPU resource in cores or millicores. For example, 1, 1.500, 1500m. For more information on valid CPU resource units see https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/#meaning-of-cpu.

inboundNetwork

string

Broker capacity for inbound network throughput in bytes per second. Use an integer value with standard Kubernetes byte units (K, M, G) or their bibyte (power of two) equivalents (Ki, Mi, Gi) per second. For example, 10000KiB/s.

outboundNetwork

string

Broker capacity for outbound network throughput in bytes per second. Use an integer value with standard Kubernetes byte units (K, M, G) or their bibyte (power of two) equivalents (Ki, Mi, Gi) per second. For example, 10000KiB/s.

overrides

BrokerCapacityOverride array

Overrides for individual brokers. The overrides property lets you specify a different capacity configuration for different brokers.

62. `BrokerCapacityOverride` schema reference

Used in: BrokerCapacity

Property

Property type

Description

brokers

integer array

List of Kafka brokers (broker identifiers).

cpu

string

inboundNetwork

string

outboundNetwork

string

63. `HashLoginServiceApiUsers` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the HashLoginServiceApiUsers type from other subtypes which may be added in the future. It must have the value hashLoginService for the type HashLoginServiceApiUsers.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be hashLoginService.

valueFrom

PasswordSource

Secret from which the custom Cruise Control API authentication credentials are read.

64. `PasswordSource` schema reference

Used in: HashLoginServiceApiUsers, Password

Property

Property type

Description

secretKeyRef

SecretKeySelector

Selects a key of a Secret in the resource’s namespace.

65. `KafkaAutoRebalanceConfiguration` schema reference

Used in: CruiseControlSpec

Property Property type Description

mode

string (one of [remove-brokers, add-brokers])

Specifies the mode for automatically rebalancing when brokers are added or removed. Supported modes are add-brokers and remove-brokers.

template

LocalObjectReference

Reference to the KafkaRebalance custom resource to be used as the configuration template for the auto-rebalancing on scaling when running for the corresponding mode.

66. `LocalObjectReference` schema reference

Used in: AlterOffsets, KafkaAutoRebalanceConfiguration, ListOffsets

Property

Property type

Description

name

string

67. `JmxTransSpec` schema reference

The type JmxTransSpec has been deprecated.

Used in: KafkaSpec

Property Property type Description

image

string

The image to use for the JmxTrans.

outputDefinitions

JmxTransOutputDefinitionTemplate array

Defines the output hosts that will be referenced later on. For more information on these properties see, JmxTransOutputDefinitionTemplate schema reference.

logLevel

string

Sets the logging level of the JmxTrans deployment.For more information see, JmxTrans Logging Level.

kafkaQueries

JmxTransQueryTemplate array

Queries to send to the Kafka brokers to define what data should be read from each broker. For more information on these properties see, JmxTransQueryTemplate schema reference.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

template

JmxTransTemplate

Template for JmxTrans resources.

68. `JmxTransOutputDefinitionTemplate` schema reference

Used in: JmxTransSpec

Property

Property type

Description

outputType

string

Template for setting the format of the data that will be pushed.For more information see JmxTrans OutputWriters.

host

string

The DNS/hostname of the remote host that the data is pushed to.

port

integer

The port of the remote host that the data is pushed to.

flushDelayInSeconds

integer

How many seconds the JmxTrans waits before pushing a new set of data out.

typeNames

string array

Template for filtering data to be included in response to a wildcard query. For more information see JmxTrans queries.

name

string

Template for setting the name of the output definition. This is used to identify where to send the results of queries should be sent.

69. `JmxTransQueryTemplate` schema reference

Used in: JmxTransSpec

Property

Property type

Description

targetMBean

string

If using wildcards instead of a specific MBean then the data is gathered from multiple MBeans. Otherwise if specifying an MBean then data is gathered from that specified MBean.

attributes

string array

Determine which attributes of the targeted MBean should be included.

outputs

string array

List of the names of output definitions specified in the spec.kafka.jmxTrans.outputDefinitions that have defined where JMX metrics are pushed to, and in which data format.

70. `JmxTransTemplate` schema reference

Used in: JmxTransSpec

Property Property type Description

deployment

Template for JmxTrans Deployment.

pod

Template for JmxTrans Pods.

container

Template for JmxTrans container.

serviceAccount

Template for the JmxTrans service account.

71. `KafkaExporterSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaSpec

Property Property type Description

image

string

The container image used for the Kafka Exporter pods. If no image name is explicitly specified, the image name corresponds to the version specified in the Cluster Operator configuration. If an image name is not defined in the Cluster Operator configuration, a default value is used.

groupRegex

string

Regular expression to specify which consumer groups to collect. Default value is .*.

topicRegex

string

Regular expression to specify which topics to collect. Default value is .*.

groupExcludeRegex

string

Regular expression to specify which consumer groups to exclude.

topicExcludeRegex

string

Regular expression to specify which topics to exclude.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

logging

string

Only log messages with the given severity or above. Valid levels: [info, debug, trace]. Default log level is info.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness check.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness check.

enableSaramaLogging

boolean

Enable Sarama logging, a Go client library used by the Kafka Exporter.

showAllOffsets

boolean

Whether show the offset/lag for all consumer group, otherwise, only show connected consumer groups.

template

KafkaExporterTemplate

Customization of deployment templates and pods.

72. `KafkaExporterTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaExporterSpec

Property Property type Description

deployment

Template for Kafka Exporter Deployment.

pod

Template for Kafka Exporter Pods.

service

The service property has been deprecated. The Kafka Exporter service has been removed. Template for Kafka Exporter Service.

container

Template for the Kafka Exporter container.

serviceAccount

KafkaAutoRebalanceStatus

Template for the Kafka Exporter service account.

73. `KafkaStatus` schema reference

Used in: Kafka

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

listeners

ListenerStatus array

Addresses of the internal and external listeners.

kafkaNodePools

UsedNodePoolStatus array

List of the KafkaNodePools used by this Kafka cluster.

registeredNodeIds

integer array

Registered node IDs used by this Kafka cluster. This field is used for internal purposes only and will be removed in the future.

clusterId

string

Kafka cluster Id.

operatorLastSuccessfulVersion

string

The version of the Strimzi Cluster Operator which performed the last successful reconciliation.

kafkaVersion

string

The version of Kafka currently deployed in the cluster.

kafkaMetadataVersion

string

The KRaft metadata.version currently used by the Kafka cluster.

kafkaMetadataState

string (one of [PreKRaft, ZooKeeper, KRaftMigration, KRaftDualWriting, KRaftPostMigration, KRaft])

Defines where cluster metadata are stored. Possible values are: ZooKeeper if the metadata are stored in ZooKeeper; KRaftMigration if the controllers are connected to ZooKeeper, brokers are being rolled with Zookeeper migration enabled and connection information to controllers, and the metadata migration process is running; KRaftDualWriting if the metadata migration process finished and the cluster is in dual-write mode; KRaftPostMigration if the brokers are fully KRaft-based but controllers being rolled to disconnect from ZooKeeper; PreKRaft if brokers and controller are fully KRaft-based, metadata are stored in KRaft, but ZooKeeper must be deleted; KRaft if the metadata are stored in KRaft.

autoRebalance

The status of an auto-rebalancing triggered by a cluster scaling request.

74. `Condition` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeStatus, KafkaConnectorStatus, KafkaConnectStatus, KafkaMirrorMaker2Status, KafkaMirrorMakerStatus, KafkaNodePoolStatus, KafkaRebalanceStatus, KafkaStatus, KafkaTopicStatus, KafkaUserStatus, StrimziPodSetStatus

Property

Property type

Description

type

string

The unique identifier of a condition, used to distinguish between other conditions in the resource.

status

string

The status of the condition, either True, False or Unknown.

lastTransitionTime

string

Last time the condition of a type changed from one status to another. The required format is 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ', in the UTC time zone.

reason

string

The reason for the condition’s last transition (a single word in CamelCase).

message

string

Human-readable message indicating details about the condition’s last transition.

75. `ListenerStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaStatus

Property Property type Description

type

string

The type property has been deprecated. The type property is not used anymore. Use the name property with the same value. The name of the listener.

name

string

The name of the listener.

addresses

ListenerAddress array

A list of the addresses for this listener.

bootstrapServers

string

A comma-separated list of host:port pairs for connecting to the Kafka cluster using this listener.

certificates

string array

A list of TLS certificates which can be used to verify the identity of the server when connecting to the given listener. Set only for tls and external listeners.

76. `ListenerAddress` schema reference

Used in: ListenerStatus

Property

Property type

Description

host

string

The DNS name or IP address of the Kafka bootstrap service.

port

integer

The port of the Kafka bootstrap service.

77. `UsedNodePoolStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaStatus

Property

Property type

Description

name

string

The name of the KafkaNodePool used by this Kafka resource.

78. `KafkaAutoRebalanceStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaStatus

Property Property type Description

state

string (one of [RebalanceOnScaleUp, Idle, RebalanceOnScaleDown])

The current state of an auto-rebalancing operation. Possible values are:

Idle as the initial state when an auto-rebalancing is requested or as final state when it completes or fails.
RebalanceOnScaleDown if an auto-rebalance related to a scale-down operation is running.
RebalanceOnScaleUp if an auto-rebalance related to a scale-up operation is running.

lastTransitionTime

string

The timestamp of the latest auto-rebalancing state update.

modes

KafkaAutoRebalanceStatusBrokers array

List of modes where an auto-rebalancing operation is either running or queued. Each mode entry (add-brokers or remove-brokers) includes one of the following:

Broker IDs for a current auto-rebalance.
Broker IDs for a queued auto-rebalance (if a previous rebalance is still in progress).

79. `KafkaAutoRebalanceStatusBrokers` schema reference

Used in: KafkaAutoRebalanceStatus

Property Property type Description

mode

string (one of [remove-brokers, add-brokers])

Mode for which there is an auto-rebalancing operation in progress or queued, when brokers are added or removed. The possible modes are add-brokers and remove-brokers.

brokers

integer array

List of broker IDs involved in an auto-rebalancing operation related to the current mode. The list contains one of the following:

Broker IDs for a current auto-rebalance.
Broker IDs for a queued auto-rebalance (if a previous auto-rebalance is still in progress).

80. `KafkaConnect` schema reference

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaConnectSpec

The specification of the Kafka Connect cluster.

status

KafkaConnectStatus

The status of the Kafka Connect cluster.

81. `KafkaConnectSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnect

Full list of KafkaConnectSpec schema properties

Configures a Kafka Connect cluster.

The config properties are one part of the overall configuration for the resource. Use the config properties to configure Kafka Connect options as keys.

Example Kafka Connect configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  name: my-connect
spec:
  # ...
  config:
    group.id: my-connect-cluster
    offset.storage.topic: my-connect-cluster-offsets
    config.storage.topic: my-connect-cluster-configs
    status.storage.topic: my-connect-cluster-status
    key.converter: org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
    value.converter: org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
    key.converter.schemas.enable: true
    value.converter.schemas.enable: true
    config.storage.replication.factor: 3
    offset.storage.replication.factor: 3
    status.storage.replication.factor: 3
  # ...

The values can be one of the following JSON types:

String
Number
Boolean

Certain options have default values:

group.id with default value connect-cluster
offset.storage.topic with default value connect-cluster-offsets
config.storage.topic with default value connect-cluster-configs
status.storage.topic with default value connect-cluster-status
key.converter with default value org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
value.converter with default value org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter

These options are automatically configured in case they are not present in the KafkaConnect.spec.config properties.

Exceptions

You can specify and configure the options listed in the Apache Kafka documentation.

However, Strimzi takes care of configuring and managing options related to the following, which cannot be changed:

Kafka cluster bootstrap address
Security (encryption, authentication, and authorization)
Listener and REST interface configuration
Plugin path configuration

Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set:

bootstrap.servers
consumer.interceptor.classes
listeners.
plugin.path
producer.interceptor.classes
rest.
sasl.
security.
ssl.

If the config property contains an option that cannot be changed, it is disregarded, and a warning message is logged to the Cluster Operator log file. All other supported options are forwarded to Kafka Connect, including the following exceptions to the options configured by Strimzi:

Any ssl configuration for supported TLS versions and cipher suites

Important

The Cluster Operator does not validate keys or values in the config object provided. If an invalid configuration is provided, the Kafka Connect cluster might not start or might become unstable. In this case, fix the configuration so that the Cluster Operator can roll out the new configuration to all Kafka Connect nodes.

81.1. Logging

Kafka Connect has its own configurable loggers:

connect.root.logger.level
log4j.logger.org.reflections

Further loggers are added depending on the Kafka Connect plugins running.

Use a curl request to get a complete list of Kafka Connect loggers running from any Kafka broker pod:

curl -s http://<connect-cluster-name>-connect-api:8083/admin/loggers/

Kafka Connect uses the Apache log4j logger implementation.

Use the logging property to configure loggers and logger levels.

Inline logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
spec:
  # ...
  logging:
    type: inline
    loggers:
      connect.root.logger.level: INFO
      log4j.logger.org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSourceTask: TRACE
      log4j.logger.org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask: DEBUG
  # ...

Note	Setting a log level to `DEBUG` may result in a large amount of log output and may have performance implications.

External logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
spec:
  # ...
  logging:
    type: external
    valueFrom:
      configMapKeyRef:
        name: customConfigMap
        key: connect-logging.log4j
  # ...

Any available loggers that are not configured have their level set to OFF.

If Kafka Connect was deployed using the Cluster Operator, changes to Kafka Connect logging levels are applied dynamically.

If you use external logging, a rolling update is triggered when logging appenders are changed.

Garbage collector (GC)

Garbage collector logging can also be enabled (or disabled) using the jvmOptions property.

81.2. `KafkaConnectSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

version

string

The Kafka Connect version. Defaults to the latest version. Consult the user documentation to understand the process required to upgrade or downgrade the version.

replicas

integer

The number of pods in the Kafka Connect group. Defaults to 3.

image

string

The container image used for Kafka Connect pods. If no image name is explicitly specified, it is determined based on the spec.version configuration. The image names are specifically mapped to corresponding versions in the Cluster Operator configuration.

bootstrapServers

string

Bootstrap servers to connect to. This should be given as a comma separated list of <hostname>:_<port>_ pairs.

tls

KafkaClientAuthenticationTls, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain, KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth

TLS configuration.

authentication

Authentication configuration for Kafka Connect.

config

map

The Kafka Connect configuration. Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set: ssl., sasl., security., listeners, plugin.path, rest., bootstrap.servers, consumer.interceptor.classes, producer.interceptor.classes (with the exception of: ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm, ssl.cipher.suites, ssl.protocol, ssl.enabled.protocols).

resources

The maximum limits for CPU and memory resources and the requested initial resources.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking.

jvmOptions

JVM Options for pods.

jmxOptions

JMX Options.

logging

Logging configuration for Kafka Connect.

clientRackInitImage

string

The image of the init container used for initializing the client.rack.

rack

Configuration of the node label which will be used as the client.rack consumer configuration.

metricsConfig

Metrics configuration.

tracing

Full list of ClientTls schema properties

The configuration of tracing in Kafka Connect.

template

KafkaConnectTemplate

Template for Kafka Connect and Kafka MirrorMaker 2 resources. The template allows users to specify how the Pods, Service, and other services are generated.

externalConfiguration

ExternalConfiguration

The externalConfiguration property has been deprecated. The external configuration is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please use the template section instead to configure additional environment variables or volumes. Pass data from Secrets or ConfigMaps to the Kafka Connect pods and use them to configure connectors.

build

Build

Configures how the Connect container image should be built. Optional.

82. `ClientTls` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec

Configures TLS trusted certificates for connecting KafkaConnect, KafkaBridge, KafkaMirror, KafkaMirrorMaker2 to the cluster.

82.1. `ClientTls` schema properties

Property Property type Description

trustedCertificates

Full list of KafkaClientAuthenticationTls schema properties

Trusted certificates for TLS connection.

83. `KafkaClientAuthenticationTls` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec

To configure mTLS authentication, set the type property to the value tls. mTLS uses a TLS certificate to authenticate.

The certificate is specified in the certificateAndKey property and is always loaded from a Kubernetes secret. In the secret, the certificate must be stored in X509 format under two different keys: public and private.

Example mTLS configuration

authentication:
  type: tls
  certificateAndKey:
    secretName: my-secret
    certificate: my-public-tls-certificate-file.crt
    key: private.key

You can use the secrets created by the User Operator, or you can create your own TLS certificate file, with the keys used for authentication, then create a Secret from the file:

kubectl create secret generic <my_tls_secret> \
--from-file=<my_public_tls_certificate>.crt \
--from-file=<my_private_key>.key

Example secret for mTLS client authentication

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: my-tls-secret
type: Opaque
data:
  tls.crt: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDRVJ...
  tls.key: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQUkl...

Note	mTLS authentication can only be used with TLS connections.

83.1. `KafkaClientAuthenticationTls` schema properties

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaClientAuthenticationTls type from KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain, KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth. It must have the value tls for the type KafkaClientAuthenticationTls.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be tls.

certificateAndKey

CertAndKeySecretSource

Reference to the Secret which holds the certificate and private key pair.

84. `KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec

Full list of KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256 schema properties

To configure SASL-based SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication, set the type property to scram-sha-256. The SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication mechanism requires a username and password.

Example SASL-based SCRAM-SHA-256 client authentication configuration for Kafka Connect

authentication:
  type: scram-sha-256
  username: my-connect-username
  passwordSecret:
    secretName: my-connect-secret-name
    password: my-connect-password-field

In the passwordSecret property, specify a link to a Secret containing the password.

You can use the secrets created by the User Operator.

If required, you can create a text file that contains the password, in cleartext, to use for authentication:

echo -n <password> > <my_password>.txt

You can then create a Secret from the text file, setting your own field name (key) for the password:

kubectl create secret generic <my-connect-secret-name> --from-file=<my_password_field_name>=./<my_password>.txt

Example secret for SCRAM-SHA-256 client authentication for Kafka Connect

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: my-connect-secret-name
type: Opaque
data:
  my-connect-password-field: LFTIyFRFlMmU2N2Tm

The secretName property contains the name of the Secret, and the password property contains the name of the key under which the password is stored inside the Secret.

Important

Do not specify the actual password in the password property.

84.1. `KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256` schema properties

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be scram-sha-256.

username

string

Username used for the authentication.

passwordSecret

Used in: KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth, KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512

Reference to the Secret which holds the password.

85. `PasswordSecretSource` schema reference

Property

Property type

Description

secretName

string

The name of the Secret containing the password.

password

string

The name of the key in the Secret under which the password is stored.

86. `KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec

Full list of KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512 schema properties

To configure SASL-based SCRAM-SHA-512 authentication, set the type property to scram-sha-512. The SCRAM-SHA-512 authentication mechanism requires a username and password.

Example SASL-based SCRAM-SHA-512 client authentication configuration for Kafka Connect

authentication:
  type: scram-sha-512
  username: my-connect-username
  passwordSecret:
    secretName: my-connect-secret-name
    password: my-connect-password-field

In the passwordSecret property, specify a link to a Secret containing the password.

You can use the secrets created by the User Operator.

If required, you can create a text file that contains the password, in cleartext, to use for authentication:

echo -n <password> > <my_password>.txt

You can then create a Secret from the text file, setting your own field name (key) for the password:

kubectl create secret generic <my-connect-secret-name> --from-file=<my_password_field_name>=./<my_password>.txt

Example secret for SCRAM-SHA-512 client authentication for Kafka Connect

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: my-connect-secret-name
type: Opaque
data:
  my-connect-password-field: LFTIyFRFlMmU2N2Tm

The secretName property contains the name of the Secret, and the password property contains the name of the key under which the password is stored inside the Secret.

Important

Do not specify the actual password in the password property.

86.1. `KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512` schema properties

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be scram-sha-512.

username

string

Username used for the authentication.

passwordSecret

Full list of KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain schema properties

Reference to the Secret which holds the password.

87. `KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec

To configure SASL-based PLAIN authentication, set the type property to plain. The SASL PLAIN authentication mechanism requires a username and password.

An example SASL-based PLAIN client authentication configuration for Kafka Connect

authentication:
  type: plain
  username: my-connect-username
  passwordSecret:
    secretName: my-connect-secret-name
    password: my-password-field-name

Warning

The SASL PLAIN mechanism will transfer the username and password across the network in cleartext. Only use SASL PLAIN authentication if TLS encryption is enabled.

In the passwordSecret property, specify a link to a Secret containing the password.

You can use the secrets created by the User Operator.

If required, create a text file that contains the password, in cleartext, to use for authentication:

echo -n <password> > <my_password>.txt

You can then create a Secret from the text file, setting your own field name (key) for the password:

kubectl create secret generic <my-connect-secret-name> --from-file=<my_password_field_name>=./<my_password>.txt

Example secret for PLAIN client authentication for Kafka Connect

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: my-connect-secret-name
type: Opaque
data:
  my-password-field-name: LFTIyFRFlMmU2N2Tm

The secretName property contains the name of the Secret and the password property contains the name of the key under which the password is stored inside the Secret.

Important

Do not specify the actual password in the password property.

87.1. `KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain` schema properties

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain type from KafkaClientAuthenticationTls, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth. It must have the value plain for the type KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be plain.

username

string

Username used for the authentication.

passwordSecret

Full list of KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth schema properties

Reference to the Secret which holds the password.

88. `KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec, KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec

To configure OAuth client authentication, set the type property to oauth.

OAuth authentication can be configured using one of the following options:

Client ID and secret
Client ID and refresh token
Access token
Username and password
TLS

Client ID and secret

You can configure the address of your authorization server in the tokenEndpointUri property together with the client ID and client secret used in authentication. The OAuth client will connect to the OAuth server, authenticate using the client ID and secret and get an access token which it will use to authenticate with the Kafka broker. In the clientSecret property, specify a link to a Secret containing the client secret.

Example client ID and client secret configuration

authentication:
  type: oauth
  tokenEndpointUri: https://<auth_server_address>/<path_to_token_endpoint>
  clientId: my-client-id
  clientSecret:
    secretName: my-client-oauth-secret
    key: client-secret

Optionally, scope and audience can be specified if needed.

Client ID and refresh token

You can configure the address of your OAuth server in the tokenEndpointUri property together with the OAuth client ID and refresh token. The OAuth client will connect to the OAuth server, authenticate using the client ID and refresh token and get an access token which it will use to authenticate with the Kafka broker. In the refreshToken property, specify a link to a Secret containing the refresh token.

Example client ID and refresh token configuration

authentication:
  type: oauth
  tokenEndpointUri: https://<auth_server_address>/<path_to_token_endpoint>
  clientId: my-client-id
  refreshToken:
    secretName: my-refresh-token-secret
    key: refresh-token

Access token

You can configure the access token used for authentication with the Kafka broker directly. In this case, you do not specify the tokenEndpointUri. In the accessToken property, specify a link to a Secret containing the access token. Alternatively, use accessTokenLocation property, and specify a path to the token file.

Example access token only configuration

authentication:
  type: oauth
  accessToken:
    secretName: my-access-token-secret
    key: access-token

Example (service account) access token configuration specifying a mounted file

authentication:
  type: oauth
  accessTokenLocation: `/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token`

Username and password

OAuth username and password configuration uses the OAuth Resource Owner Password Grant mechanism. The mechanism is deprecated, and is only supported to enable integration in environments where client credentials (ID and secret) cannot be used. You might need to use user accounts if your access management system does not support another approach or user accounts are required for authentication.

A typical approach is to create a special user account in your authorization server that represents your client application. You then give the account a long randomly generated password and a very limited set of permissions. For example, the account can only connect to your Kafka cluster, but is not allowed to use any other services or login to the user interface.

Consider using a refresh token mechanism first.

You can configure the address of your authorization server in the tokenEndpointUri property together with the client ID, username and the password used in authentication. The OAuth client will connect to the OAuth server, authenticate using the username, the password, the client ID, and optionally even the client secret to obtain an access token which it will use to authenticate with the Kafka broker.

In the passwordSecret property, specify a link to a Secret containing the password.

Normally, you also have to configure a clientId using a public OAuth client. If you are using a confidential OAuth client, you also have to configure a clientSecret.

Example username and password configuration with a public client

authentication:
  type: oauth
  tokenEndpointUri: https://<auth_server_address>/<path_to_token_endpoint>
  username: my-username
  passwordSecret:
    secretName: my-password-secret-name
    password: my-password-field-name
  clientId: my-public-client-id

Example username and password configuration with a confidential client

authentication:
  type: oauth
  tokenEndpointUri: https://<auth_server_address>/<path_to_token_endpoint>
  username: my-username
  passwordSecret:
    secretName: my-password-secret-name
    password: my-password-field-name
  clientId: my-confidential-client-id
  clientSecret:
    secretName: my-confidential-client-oauth-secret
    key: client-secret

Optionally, scope and audience can be specified if needed.

TLS

Accessing the OAuth server using the HTTPS protocol does not require any additional configuration as long as the TLS certificates used by it are signed by a trusted certification authority and its hostname is listed in the certificate.

If your OAuth server uses self-signed certificates or certificates signed by an untrusted certification authority, use the tlsTrustedCertificates property to specify the secrets containing them. The certificates must be in X.509 format.

Example configuration specifying TLS certificates

authentication:
  type: oauth
  tokenEndpointUri: https://<auth_server_address>/<path_to_token_endpoint>
  clientId: my-client-id
  refreshToken:
    secretName: my-refresh-token-secret
    key: refresh-token
  tlsTrustedCertificates:
    - secretName: oauth-server-ca
      pattern: "*.crt"

The OAuth client will by default verify that the hostname of your OAuth server matches either the certificate subject or one of the alternative DNS names. If it is not required, you can disable the hostname verification.

Example configuration to disable TLS hostname verification

authentication:
  type: oauth
  tokenEndpointUri: https://<auth_server_address>/<path_to_token_endpoint>
  clientId: my-client-id
  refreshToken:
    secretName: my-refresh-token-secret
    key: refresh-token
  disableTlsHostnameVerification: true

88.1. `KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth` schema properties

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth type from KafkaClientAuthenticationTls, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain. It must have the value oauth for the type KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be oauth.

clientId

string

OAuth Client ID which the Kafka client can use to authenticate against the OAuth server and use the token endpoint URI.

username

string

Username used for the authentication.

scope

string

OAuth scope to use when authenticating against the authorization server. Some authorization servers require this to be set. The possible values depend on how authorization server is configured. By default scope is not specified when doing the token endpoint request.

audience

string

OAuth audience to use when authenticating against the authorization server. Some authorization servers require the audience to be explicitly set. The possible values depend on how the authorization server is configured. By default, audience is not specified when performing the token endpoint request.

tokenEndpointUri

string

Authorization server token endpoint URI.

connectTimeoutSeconds

integer

The connect timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective connect timeout is 60 seconds.

readTimeoutSeconds

integer

The read timeout in seconds when connecting to authorization server. If not set, the effective read timeout is 60 seconds.

httpRetries

integer

The maximum number of retries to attempt if an initial HTTP request fails. If not set, the default is to not attempt any retries.

httpRetryPauseMs

integer

The pause to take before retrying a failed HTTP request. If not set, the default is to not pause at all but to immediately repeat a request.

clientSecret

Link to Kubernetes Secret containing the OAuth client secret which the Kafka client can use to authenticate against the OAuth server and use the token endpoint URI.

passwordSecret

Reference to the Secret which holds the password.

accessToken

Link to Kubernetes Secret containing the access token which was obtained from the authorization server.

refreshToken

Link to Kubernetes Secret containing the refresh token which can be used to obtain access token from the authorization server.

tlsTrustedCertificates

Trusted certificates for TLS connection to the OAuth server.

disableTlsHostnameVerification

boolean

Enable or disable TLS hostname verification. Default value is false.

maxTokenExpirySeconds

integer

Set or limit time-to-live of the access tokens to the specified number of seconds. This should be set if the authorization server returns opaque tokens.

accessTokenIsJwt

boolean

Configure whether access token should be treated as JWT. This should be set to false if the authorization server returns opaque tokens. Defaults to true.

enableMetrics

boolean

Enable or disable OAuth metrics. Default value is false.

includeAcceptHeader

boolean

Whether the Accept header should be set in requests to the authorization servers. The default value is true.

accessTokenLocation

string

Path to the token file containing an access token to be used for authentication.

clientAssertion

Link to Kubernetes secret containing the client assertion which was manually configured for the client.

clientAssertionLocation

string

Path to the file containing the client assertion to be used for authentication.

clientAssertionType

string

The client assertion type. If not set, and either clientAssertion or clientAssertionLocation is configured, this value defaults to urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer.

saslExtensions

map

SASL extensions parameters.

89. `JaegerTracing` schema reference

The type JaegerTracing has been deprecated.

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec, KafkaMirrorMakerSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the JaegerTracing type from OpenTelemetryTracing. It must have the value jaeger for the type JaegerTracing.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be jaeger.

90. `OpenTelemetryTracing` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec, KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec, KafkaMirrorMakerSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the OpenTelemetryTracing type from JaegerTracing. It must have the value opentelemetry for the type OpenTelemetryTracing.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be opentelemetry.

91. `KafkaConnectTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec

Property Property type Description

deployment

The deployment property has been deprecated. Kafka Connect and MirrorMaker 2 operands do not use Deployment resources anymore. This field will be ignored. Template for Kafka Connect Deployment.

podSet

Template for Kafka Connect StrimziPodSet resource.

pod

Template for Kafka Connect Pods.

apiService

Template for Kafka Connect API Service.

headlessService

Template for Kafka Connect headless Service.

connectContainer

Template for the Kafka Connect container.

initContainer

Template for the Kafka init container.

podDisruptionBudget

Template for Kafka Connect PodDisruptionBudget.

serviceAccount

Template for the Kafka Connect service account.

clusterRoleBinding

Template for the Kafka Connect ClusterRoleBinding.

buildPod

Template for Kafka Connect Build Pods. The build pod is used only on Kubernetes.

buildContainer

Template for the Kafka Connect Build container. The build container is used only on Kubernetes.

buildConfig

BuildConfigTemplate

Template for the Kafka Connect BuildConfig used to build new container images. The BuildConfig is used only on OpenShift.

buildServiceAccount

Template for the Kafka Connect Build service account.

jmxSecret

Template for Secret of the Kafka Connect Cluster JMX authentication.

92. `BuildConfigTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnectTemplate

Property Property type Description

metadata

Full list of ExternalConfiguration schema properties

Metadata to apply to the PodDisruptionBudgetTemplate resource.

pullSecret

string

Container Registry Secret with the credentials for pulling the base image.

93. `ExternalConfiguration` schema reference

The type ExternalConfiguration has been deprecated. Please use KafkaConnectTemplate instead.

Used in: KafkaConnectSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec

Configures external storage properties that define configuration options for Kafka Connect connectors.

You can mount ConfigMaps or Secrets into a Kafka Connect pod as environment variables or volumes. Volumes and environment variables are configured in the externalConfiguration property in KafkaConnect.spec or KafkaMirrorMaker2.spec.

When applied, the environment variables and volumes are available for use when developing your connectors.

For more information, see Loading configuration values from external sources.

93.1. `ExternalConfiguration` schema properties

Property Property type Description

env

ExternalConfigurationEnv array

The env property has been deprecated. The external configuration environment variables are deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please use the environment variables in a container template instead. Makes data from a Secret or ConfigMap available in the Kafka Connect pods as environment variables.

volumes

ExternalConfigurationVolumeSource array

The volumes property has been deprecated. The external configuration volumes are deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please use the additional volumes and volume mounts in pod and container templates instead to mount additional secrets or config maps. Makes data from a Secret or ConfigMap available in the Kafka Connect pods as volumes.

94. `ExternalConfigurationEnv` schema reference

The type ExternalConfigurationEnv has been deprecated. Please use ContainerEnvVar instead.

Used in: ExternalConfiguration

Property Property type Description

name

string

Name of the environment variable which will be passed to the Kafka Connect pods. The name of the environment variable cannot start with KAFKA_ or STRIMZI_.

valueFrom

ExternalConfigurationEnvVarSource

Value of the environment variable which will be passed to the Kafka Connect pods. It can be passed either as a reference to Secret or ConfigMap field. The field has to specify exactly one Secret or ConfigMap.

95. `ExternalConfigurationEnvVarSource` schema reference

Used in: ExternalConfigurationEnv

Property

Property type

Description

secretKeyRef

SecretKeySelector

Reference to a key in a Secret.

configMapKeyRef

ConfigMapKeySelector

Reference to a key in a ConfigMap.

96. `ExternalConfigurationVolumeSource` schema reference

The type ExternalConfigurationVolumeSource has been deprecated. Please use AdditionalVolume instead.

Used in: ExternalConfiguration

Property

Property type

Description

name

string

Name of the volume which will be added to the Kafka Connect pods.

secret

SecretVolumeSource

Reference to a key in a Secret. Exactly one Secret or ConfigMap has to be specified.

configMap

ConfigMapVolumeSource

Reference to a key in a ConfigMap. Exactly one Secret or ConfigMap has to be specified.

97. `Build` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnectSpec

Full list of Build schema properties

Configures additional connectors for Kafka Connect deployments.

97.1. Configuring container registries

To build new container images with additional connector plugins, Strimzi requires a container registry where the images can be pushed to, stored, and pulled from. Strimzi does not run its own container registry, so a registry must be provided. Strimzi supports private container registries as well as public registries such as Quay or Docker Hub. The container registry is configured in the .spec.build.output section of the KafkaConnect custom resource. The output configuration, which is required, supports two types: docker and imagestream.

Using Docker registry

To use a Docker registry, you have to specify the type as docker, and the image field with the full name of the new container image. The full name must include:

The address of the registry
Port number (if listening on a non-standard port)
The tag of the new container image

Example valid container image names:

docker.io/my-org/my-image/my-tag
quay.io/my-org/my-image/my-tag
image-registry.image-registry.svc:5000/myproject/kafka-connect-build:latest

Each Kafka Connect deployment must use a separate image, which can mean different tags at the most basic level.

If the registry requires authentication, use the pushSecret to set a name of the Secret with the registry credentials. For the Secret, use the kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson type and a .dockerconfigjson file to contain the Docker credentials. For more information on pulling an image from a private registry, see Create a Secret based on existing Docker credentials.

Example output configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  name: my-connect-cluster
spec:
  #...
  build:
    output:
      type: docker # (1)
      image: my-registry.io/my-org/my-connect-cluster:latest # (2)
      pushSecret: my-registry-credentials # (3)
  #...

(Required) Type of output used by Strimzi.
(Required) Full name of the image used, including the repository and tag.
(Optional) Name of the secret with the container registry credentials.

Using OpenShift ImageStream

Instead of Docker, you can use OpenShift ImageStream to store a new container image. The ImageStream has to be created manually before deploying Kafka Connect. To use ImageStream, set the type to imagestream, and use the image property to specify the name of the ImageStream and the tag used. For example, my-connect-image-stream:latest.

Example output configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  name: my-connect-cluster
spec:
  #...
  build:
    output:
      type: imagestream # (1)
      image: my-connect-build:latest # (2)
  #...

(Required) Type of output used by Strimzi.
(Required) Name of the ImageStream and tag.

97.2. Configuring connector plugins

Connector plugins are a set of files that define the implementation required to connect to certain types of external system. The connector plugins required for a container image must be configured using the .spec.build.plugins property of the KafkaConnect custom resource. Each connector plugin must have a name which is unique within the Kafka Connect deployment. Additionally, the plugin artifacts must be listed. These artifacts are downloaded by Strimzi, added to the new container image, and used in the Kafka Connect deployment. The connector plugin artifacts can also include additional components, such as (de)serializers. Each connector plugin is downloaded into a separate directory so that the different connectors and their dependencies are properly sandboxed. Each plugin must be configured with at least one artifact.

Example plugins configuration with two connector plugins

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  name: my-connect-cluster
spec:
  #...
  build:
    output:
      #...
    plugins: # (1)
      - name: connector-1
        artifacts:
          - type: tgz
            url: <url_to_download_connector_1_artifact>
            sha512sum: <SHA-512_checksum_of_connector_1_artifact>
      - name: connector-2
        artifacts:
          - type: jar
            url: <url_to_download_connector_2_artifact>
            sha512sum: <SHA-512_checksum_of_connector_2_artifact>
  #...

(Required) List of connector plugins and their artifacts.

Strimzi supports the following types of artifacts:

JAR files, which are downloaded and used directly
TGZ archives, which are downloaded and unpacked
ZIP archives, which are downloaded and unpacked
Maven artifacts, which uses Maven coordinates
Other artifacts, which are downloaded and used directly

Important

Strimzi does not perform any security scanning of the downloaded artifacts. For security reasons, you should first verify the artifacts manually, and configure the checksum verification to make sure the same artifact is used in the automated build and in the Kafka Connect deployment.

Using JAR artifacts

JAR artifacts represent a JAR file that is downloaded and added to a container image. To use a JAR artifacts, set the type property to jar, and specify the download location using the url property.

Additionally, you can specify a SHA-512 checksum of the artifact. If specified, Strimzi will verify the checksum of the artifact while building the new container image.

Example JAR artifact

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  name: my-connect-cluster
spec:
  #...
  build:
    output:
      #...
    plugins:
      - name: my-plugin
        artifacts:
          - type: jar # (1)
            url: https://my-domain.tld/my-jar.jar # (2)
            sha512sum: 589...ab4 # (3)
          - type: jar
            url: https://my-domain.tld/my-jar2.jar
  #...

(Required) Type of artifact.
(Required) URL from which the artifact is downloaded.
(Optional) SHA-512 checksum to verify the artifact.

Using TGZ artifacts

TGZ artifacts are used to download TAR archives that have been compressed using Gzip compression. The TGZ artifact can contain the whole Kafka Connect connector, even when comprising multiple different files. The TGZ artifact is automatically downloaded and unpacked by Strimzi while building the new container image. To use TGZ artifacts, set the type property to tgz, and specify the download location using the url property.

Additionally, you can specify a SHA-512 checksum of the artifact. If specified, Strimzi will verify the checksum before unpacking it and building the new container image.

Example TGZ artifact

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  name: my-connect-cluster
spec:
  #...
  build:
    output:
      #...
    plugins:
      - name: my-plugin
        artifacts:
          - type: tgz # (1)
            url: https://my-domain.tld/my-connector-archive.tgz # (2)
            sha512sum: 158...jg10 # (3)
  #...

(Required) Type of artifact.
(Required) URL from which the archive is downloaded.
(Optional) SHA-512 checksum to verify the artifact.

Using ZIP artifacts

ZIP artifacts are used to download ZIP compressed archives. Use ZIP artifacts in the same way as the TGZ artifacts described in the previous section. The only difference is you specify type: zip instead of type: tgz.

Using Maven artifacts

maven artifacts are used to specify connector plugin artifacts as Maven coordinates. The Maven coordinates identify plugin artifacts and dependencies so that they can be located and fetched from a Maven repository.

Note	The Maven repository must be accessible for the connector build process to add the artifacts to the container image.

Example Maven artifact

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  name: my-connect-cluster
spec:
  #...
  build:
    output:
      #...
    plugins:
      - name: my-plugin
        artifacts:
          - type: maven # (1)
            repository: https://mvnrepository.com # (2)
            group: <maven_group> # (3)
            artifact: <maven_artifact> # (4)
            version:  <maven_version_number> # (5)
  #...

(Required) Type of artifact.
(Optional) Maven repository to download the artifacts from. If you do not specify a repository, Maven Central repository is used by default.
(Required) Maven group ID.
(Required) Maven artifact type.
(Required) Maven version number.

Using other artifacts

other artifacts represent any kind of file that is downloaded and added to a container image. If you want to use a specific name for the artifact in the resulting container image, use the fileName field. If a file name is not specified, the file is named based on the URL hash.

Additionally, you can specify a SHA-512 checksum of the artifact. If specified, Strimzi will verify the checksum of the artifact while building the new container image.

Example other artifact

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  name: my-connect-cluster
spec:
  #...
  build:
    output:
      #...
    plugins:
      - name: my-plugin
        artifacts:
          - type: other  # (1)
            url: https://my-domain.tld/my-other-file.ext  # (2)
            sha512sum: 589...ab4  # (3)
            fileName: name-the-file.ext  # (4)
  #...

(Required) Type of artifact.
(Required) URL from which the artifact is downloaded.
(Optional) SHA-512 checksum to verify the artifact.
(Optional) The name under which the file is stored in the resulting container image.

97.3. `Build` schema properties

Property Property type Description

output

DockerOutput, ImageStreamOutput

Configures where should the newly built image be stored. Required.

plugins

Plugin array

List of connector plugins which should be added to the Kafka Connect. Required.

resources

KafkaUserTlsClientAuthentication, KafkaUserTlsExternalClientAuthentication, KafkaUserScramSha512ClientAuthentication

CPU and memory resources to reserve for the build.

98. `DockerOutput` schema reference

Used in: Build

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the DockerOutput type from ImageStreamOutput. It must have the value docker for the type DockerOutput.

Property Property type Description

image

string

The full name which should be used for tagging and pushing the newly built image. For example quay.io/my-organization/my-custom-connect:latest. Required.

pushSecret

string

Container Registry Secret with the credentials for pushing the newly built image.

additionalKanikoOptions

string array

Configures additional options which will be passed to the Kaniko executor when building the new Connect image. Allowed options are: --customPlatform, --custom-platform, --insecure, --insecure-pull, --insecure-registry, --log-format, --log-timestamp, --registry-mirror, --reproducible, --single-snapshot, --skip-tls-verify, --skip-tls-verify-pull, --skip-tls-verify-registry, --verbosity, --snapshotMode, --use-new-run, --registry-certificate, --registry-client-cert. These options will be used only on Kubernetes where the Kaniko executor is used. They will be ignored on OpenShift. The options are described in the Kaniko GitHub repository. Changing this field does not trigger new build of the Kafka Connect image.

type

string

Must be docker.

99. `ImageStreamOutput` schema reference

Used in: Build

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the ImageStreamOutput type from DockerOutput. It must have the value imagestream for the type ImageStreamOutput.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be imagestream.

image

string

The name and tag of the ImageStream where the newly built image will be pushed. For example my-custom-connect:latest. Required.

100. `Plugin` schema reference

Used in: Build

Property Property type Description

name

string

The unique name of the connector plugin. Will be used to generate the path where the connector artifacts will be stored. The name has to be unique within the KafkaConnect resource. The name has to follow the following pattern: ^[a-z][-_a-z0-9]*[a-z]$. Required.

artifacts

JarArtifact, TgzArtifact, ZipArtifact, MavenArtifact, OtherArtifact array

List of artifacts which belong to this connector plugin. Required.

101. `JarArtifact` schema reference

Used in: Plugin

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be jar.

url

string

URL of the artifact which will be downloaded. Strimzi does not do any security scanning of the downloaded artifacts. For security reasons, you should first verify the artifacts manually and configure the checksum verification to make sure the same artifact is used in the automated build. Required for jar, zip, tgz and other artifacts. Not applicable to the maven artifact type.

sha512sum

string

SHA512 checksum of the artifact. Optional. If specified, the checksum will be verified while building the new container. If not specified, the downloaded artifact will not be verified. Not applicable to the maven artifact type.

insecure

boolean

By default, connections using TLS are verified to check they are secure. The server certificate used must be valid, trusted, and contain the server name. By setting this option to true, all TLS verification is disabled and the artifact will be downloaded, even when the server is considered insecure.

102. `TgzArtifact` schema reference

Used in: Plugin

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be tgz.

url

string

sha512sum

string

insecure

boolean

103. `ZipArtifact` schema reference

Used in: Plugin

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be zip.

url

string

sha512sum

string

insecure

boolean

104. `MavenArtifact` schema reference

Used in: Plugin

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the MavenArtifact type from JarArtifact, TgzArtifact, ZipArtifact, OtherArtifact. It must have the value maven for the type MavenArtifact.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be maven.

repository

string

Maven repository to download the artifact from. Applicable to the maven artifact type only.

group

string

Maven group id. Applicable to the maven artifact type only.

artifact

string

Maven artifact id. Applicable to the maven artifact type only.

version

string

Maven version number. Applicable to the maven artifact type only.

insecure

boolean

By default, connections using TLS are verified to check they are secure. The server certificate used must be valid, trusted, and contain the server name. By setting this option to true, all TLS verification is disabled and the artifacts will be downloaded, even when the server is considered insecure.

105. `OtherArtifact` schema reference

Used in: Plugin

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be other.

url

string

sha512sum

string

fileName

string

Name under which the artifact will be stored.

insecure

boolean

106. `KafkaConnectStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnect

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

url

string

The URL of the REST API endpoint for managing and monitoring Kafka Connect connectors.

connectorPlugins

ConnectorPlugin array

The list of connector plugins available in this Kafka Connect deployment.

replicas

integer

The current number of pods being used to provide this resource.

labelSelector

string

Label selector for pods providing this resource.

107. `ConnectorPlugin` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnectStatus, KafkaMirrorMaker2Status

Property Property type Description

class

string

The class of the connector plugin.

type

string

The type of the connector plugin. The available types are sink and source.

version

string

The version of the connector plugin.

108. `KafkaTopic` schema reference

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaTopicSpec

The specification of the topic.

status

KafkaTopicStatus

The status of the topic.

109. `KafkaTopicSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaTopic

Property Property type Description

topicName

string

The name of the topic. When absent this will default to the metadata.name of the topic. It is recommended to not set this unless the topic name is not a valid Kubernetes resource name.

partitions

integer

The number of partitions the topic should have. This cannot be decreased after topic creation. It can be increased after topic creation, but it is important to understand the consequences that has, especially for topics with semantic partitioning. When absent this will default to the broker configuration for num.partitions.

replicas

integer

The number of replicas the topic should have. When absent this will default to the broker configuration for default.replication.factor.

config

map

The topic configuration.

110. `KafkaTopicStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaTopic

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

topicName

string

Topic name.

topicId

string

The topic’s id. For a KafkaTopic with the ready condition, this will change only if the topic gets deleted and recreated with the same name.

replicasChange

ReplicasChangeStatus

Replication factor change status.

111. `ReplicasChangeStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaTopicStatus

Property Property type Description

targetReplicas

integer

The target replicas value requested by the user. This may be different from .spec.replicas when a change is ongoing.

state

string (one of [ongoing, pending])

Current state of the replicas change operation. This can be pending, when the change has been requested, or ongoing, when the change has been successfully submitted to Cruise Control.

message

string

Message for the user related to the replicas change request. This may contain transient error messages that would disappear on periodic reconciliations.

sessionId

string

The session identifier for replicas change requests pertaining to this KafkaTopic resource. This is used by the Topic Operator to track the status of ongoing replicas change operations.

112. `KafkaUser` schema reference

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaUserSpec

The specification of the user.

status

KafkaUserStatus

The status of the Kafka User.

113. `KafkaUserSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUser

Property Property type Description

authentication

Authentication mechanism enabled for this Kafka user. The supported authentication mechanisms are scram-sha-512, tls, and tls-external.

scram-sha-512 generates a secret with SASL SCRAM-SHA-512 credentials.
tls generates a secret with user certificate for mutual TLS authentication.
tls-external does not generate a user certificate. But prepares the user for using mutual TLS authentication using a user certificate generated outside the User Operator. ACLs and quotas set for this user are configured in the CN=<username> format.

Authentication is optional. If authentication is not configured, no credentials are generated. ACLs and quotas set for the user are configured in the <username> format suitable for SASL authentication.

authorization

KafkaUserAuthorizationSimple

Authorization rules for this Kafka user.

quotas

KafkaUserQuotas

Quotas on requests to control the broker resources used by clients. Network bandwidth and request rate quotas can be enforced.Kafka documentation for Kafka User quotas can be found at http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#design_quotas.

template

KafkaUserTemplate

Template to specify how Kafka User Secrets are generated.

114. `KafkaUserTlsClientAuthentication` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUserSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaUserTlsClientAuthentication type from KafkaUserTlsExternalClientAuthentication, KafkaUserScramSha512ClientAuthentication. It must have the value tls for the type KafkaUserTlsClientAuthentication.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be tls.

115. `KafkaUserTlsExternalClientAuthentication` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUserSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaUserTlsExternalClientAuthentication type from KafkaUserTlsClientAuthentication, KafkaUserScramSha512ClientAuthentication. It must have the value tls-external for the type KafkaUserTlsExternalClientAuthentication.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be tls-external.

116. `KafkaUserScramSha512ClientAuthentication` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUserSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaUserScramSha512ClientAuthentication type from KafkaUserTlsClientAuthentication, KafkaUserTlsExternalClientAuthentication. It must have the value scram-sha-512 for the type KafkaUserScramSha512ClientAuthentication.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be scram-sha-512.

password

Password

Specify the password for the user. If not set, a new password is generated by the User Operator.

117. `Password` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUserScramSha512ClientAuthentication

Property Property type Description

valueFrom

PasswordSource

Secret from which the password should be read.

118. `KafkaUserAuthorizationSimple` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUserSpec

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the KafkaUserAuthorizationSimple type from other subtypes which may be added in the future. It must have the value simple for the type KafkaUserAuthorizationSimple.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be simple.

acls

AclRule array

List of ACL rules which should be applied to this user.

119. `AclRule` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUserAuthorizationSimple

Full list of AclRule schema properties

Configures access control rules for a KafkaUser when brokers are using simple authorization.

Example KafkaUser configuration with simple authorization

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaUser
metadata:
  name: my-user
  labels:
    strimzi.io/cluster: my-cluster
spec:
  # ...
  authorization:
    type: simple
    acls:
      - resource:
          type: topic
          name: "*"
          patternType: literal
        operations:
          - Read
          - Describe
      - resource:
          type: group
          name: my-group
          patternType: prefix
        operations:
          - Read

Use the resource property to specify the resource that the rule applies to.

Simple authorization supports four resource types, which are specified in the type property:

Topics (topic)
Consumer Groups (group)
Clusters (cluster)
Transactional IDs (transactionalId)

For Topic, Group, and Transactional ID resources you can specify the name of the resource the rule applies to in the name property.

Cluster type resources have no name.

A name is specified as a literal or a prefix using the patternType property.

Literal names are taken exactly as they are specified in the name field.
Prefix names use the name value as a prefix and then apply the rule to all resources with names starting with that value.

When patternType is set as literal, you can set the name to * to indicate that the rule applies to all resources.

For more details about simple authorization, ACLs, and supported combinations of resources and operations, see Authorization and ACLs.

119.1. `AclRule` schema properties

Property Property type Description

type

string (one of [allow, deny])

The type of the rule. Currently the only supported type is allow. ACL rules with type allow are used to allow user to execute the specified operations. Default value is allow.

resource

AclRuleTopicResource, AclRuleGroupResource, AclRuleClusterResource, AclRuleTransactionalIdResource

Indicates the resource for which given ACL rule applies.

host

string

The host from which the action described in the ACL rule is allowed or denied. If not set, it defaults to *, allowing or denying the action from any host.

operation

string (one of [Read, Write, Delete, Alter, Describe, All, IdempotentWrite, ClusterAction, Create, AlterConfigs, DescribeConfigs])

The operation property has been deprecated, and should now be configured using spec.authorization.acls[*].operations. Operation which will be allowed or denied. Supported operations are: Read, Write, Create, Delete, Alter, Describe, ClusterAction, AlterConfigs, DescribeConfigs, IdempotentWrite and All.

operations

string (one or more of [Read, Write, Delete, Alter, Describe, All, IdempotentWrite, ClusterAction, Create, AlterConfigs, DescribeConfigs]) array

List of operations to allow or deny. Supported operations are: Read, Write, Create, Delete, Alter, Describe, ClusterAction, AlterConfigs, DescribeConfigs, IdempotentWrite and All. Only certain operations work with the specified resource.

120. `AclRuleTopicResource` schema reference

Used in: AclRule

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the AclRuleTopicResource type from AclRuleGroupResource, AclRuleClusterResource, AclRuleTransactionalIdResource. It must have the value topic for the type AclRuleTopicResource.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be topic.

name

string

Name of resource for which given ACL rule applies. Can be combined with patternType field to use prefix pattern.

patternType

string (one of [prefix, literal])

Describes the pattern used in the resource field. The supported types are literal and prefix. With literal pattern type, the resource field will be used as a definition of a full topic name. With prefix pattern type, the resource name will be used only as a prefix. Default value is literal.

121. `AclRuleGroupResource` schema reference

Used in: AclRule

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the AclRuleGroupResource type from AclRuleTopicResource, AclRuleClusterResource, AclRuleTransactionalIdResource. It must have the value group for the type AclRuleGroupResource.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be group.

name

string

Name of resource for which given ACL rule applies. Can be combined with patternType field to use prefix pattern.

patternType

string (one of [prefix, literal])

122. `AclRuleClusterResource` schema reference

Used in: AclRule

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the AclRuleClusterResource type from AclRuleTopicResource, AclRuleGroupResource, AclRuleTransactionalIdResource. It must have the value cluster for the type AclRuleClusterResource.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be cluster.

123. `AclRuleTransactionalIdResource` schema reference

Used in: AclRule

The type property is a discriminator that distinguishes use of the AclRuleTransactionalIdResource type from AclRuleTopicResource, AclRuleGroupResource, AclRuleClusterResource. It must have the value transactionalId for the type AclRuleTransactionalIdResource.

Property Property type Description

type

string

Must be transactionalId.

name

string

Name of resource for which given ACL rule applies. Can be combined with patternType field to use prefix pattern.

patternType

string (one of [prefix, literal])

Describes the pattern used in the resource field. The supported types are literal and prefix. With literal pattern type, the resource field will be used as a definition of a full name. With prefix pattern type, the resource name will be used only as a prefix. Default value is literal.

124. `KafkaUserQuotas` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUserSpec

Full list of KafkaUserQuotas schema properties

Configure clients to use quotas so that a user does not overload Kafka brokers.

Example Kafka user quota configuration

spec:
  quotas:
    producerByteRate: 1048576
    consumerByteRate: 2097152
    requestPercentage: 55
    controllerMutationRate: 10

For more information about Kafka user quotas, refer to the Apache Kafka documentation.

124.1. `KafkaUserQuotas` schema properties

Property

Property type

Description

producerByteRate

integer

A quota on the maximum bytes per-second that each client group can publish to a broker before the clients in the group are throttled. Defined on a per-broker basis.

consumerByteRate

integer

A quota on the maximum bytes per-second that each client group can fetch from a broker before the clients in the group are throttled. Defined on a per-broker basis.

requestPercentage

integer

A quota on the maximum CPU utilization of each client group as a percentage of network and I/O threads.

controllerMutationRate

number

A quota on the rate at which mutations are accepted for the create topics request, the create partitions request and the delete topics request. The rate is accumulated by the number of partitions created or deleted.

125. `KafkaUserTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUserSpec

Full list of KafkaUserTemplate schema properties

Specify additional labels and annotations for the secret created by the User Operator.

An example showing the KafkaUserTemplate

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaUser
metadata:
  name: my-user
  labels:
    strimzi.io/cluster: my-cluster
spec:
  authentication:
    type: tls
  template:
    secret:
      metadata:
        labels:
          label1: value1
        annotations:
          anno1: value1
  # ...

125.1. `KafkaUserTemplate` schema properties

Property Property type Description

secret

Full list of KafkaMirrorMakerSpec schema properties

Template for KafkaUser resources. The template allows users to specify how the Secret with password or TLS certificates is generated.

126. `KafkaUserStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaUser

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

username

string

Username.

secret

string

The name of Secret where the credentials are stored.

127. `KafkaMirrorMaker` schema reference

The type KafkaMirrorMaker has been deprecated. Please use KafkaMirrorMaker2 instead.

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaMirrorMakerSpec

The specification of Kafka MirrorMaker.

status

KafkaMirrorMakerStatus

The status of Kafka MirrorMaker.

128. `KafkaMirrorMakerSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMaker

Configures Kafka MirrorMaker.

128.1. `include`

Use the include property to configure a list of topics that Kafka MirrorMaker mirrors from the source to the target Kafka cluster.

The property allows any regular expression from the simplest case with a single topic name to complex patterns. For example, you can mirror topics A and B using A|B or all topics using *. You can also pass multiple regular expressions separated by commas to the Kafka MirrorMaker.

128.2. `KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec` and `KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec`

Use the KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec and KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec to configure source (consumer) and target (producer) clusters.

Kafka MirrorMaker always works together with two Kafka clusters (source and target). To establish a connection, the bootstrap servers for the source and the target Kafka clusters are specified as comma-separated lists of HOSTNAME:PORT pairs. Each comma-separated list contains one or more Kafka brokers or a Service pointing to Kafka brokers specified as a HOSTNAME:PORT pair.

128.3. `logging`

Kafka MirrorMaker has its own configurable logger:

mirrormaker.root.logger

MirrorMaker uses the Apache log4j logger implementation.

Use the logging property to configure loggers and logger levels.

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaMirrorMaker
spec:
  # ...
  logging:
    type: inline
    loggers:
      mirrormaker.root.logger: INFO
      log4j.logger.org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient: TRACE
      log4j.logger.org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector: DEBUG
  # ...

Note	Setting a log level to `DEBUG` may result in a large amount of log output and may have performance implications.

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaMirrorMaker
spec:
  # ...
  logging:
    type: external
    valueFrom:
      configMapKeyRef:
        name: customConfigMap
        key: mirror-maker-log4j.properties
  # ...

Garbage collector (GC)

Garbage collector logging can also be enabled (or disabled) using the jvmOptions property.

128.4. `KafkaMirrorMakerSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

version

string

The Kafka MirrorMaker version. Defaults to the latest version. Consult the documentation to understand the process required to upgrade or downgrade the version.

replicas

integer

The number of pods in the Deployment.

image

string

The container image used for Kafka MirrorMaker pods. If no image name is explicitly specified, it is determined based on the spec.version configuration. The image names are specifically mapped to corresponding versions in the Cluster Operator configuration.

consumer

KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec

Configuration of source cluster.

producer

KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec

Configuration of target cluster.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

whitelist

string

The whitelist property has been deprecated, and should now be configured using spec.include. List of topics which are included for mirroring. This option allows any regular expression using Java-style regular expressions. Mirroring two topics named A and B is achieved by using the expression A|B. Or, as a special case, you can mirror all topics using the regular expression *. You can also specify multiple regular expressions separated by commas.

include

string

List of topics which are included for mirroring. This option allows any regular expression using Java-style regular expressions. Mirroring two topics named A and B is achieved by using the expression A|B. Or, as a special case, you can mirror all topics using the regular expression *. You can also specify multiple regular expressions separated by commas.

jvmOptions

JVM Options for pods.

logging

Logging configuration for MirrorMaker.

metricsConfig

Metrics configuration.

tracing

KafkaMirrorMakerTemplate

The configuration of tracing in Kafka MirrorMaker.

template

Template to specify how Kafka MirrorMaker resources, Deployments and Pods, are generated.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Full list of KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec schema properties

Pod readiness checking.

129. `KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMakerSpec

Configures a MirrorMaker consumer.

129.1. `numStreams`

Use the consumer.numStreams property to configure the number of streams for the consumer.

You can increase the throughput in mirroring topics by increasing the number of consumer threads. Consumer threads belong to the consumer group specified for Kafka MirrorMaker. Topic partitions are assigned across the consumer threads, which consume messages in parallel.

129.2. `offsetCommitInterval`

Use the consumer.offsetCommitInterval property to configure an offset auto-commit interval for the consumer.

You can specify the regular time interval at which an offset is committed after Kafka MirrorMaker has consumed data from the source Kafka cluster. The time interval is set in milliseconds, with a default value of 60,000.

129.3. `config`

Use the consumer.config properties to configure Kafka options for the consumer as keys.

The values can be one of the following JSON types:

String
Number
Boolean

Exceptions

You can specify and configure the options listed in the Apache Kafka configuration documentation for consumers.

However, Strimzi takes care of configuring and managing options related to the following, which cannot be changed:

Kafka cluster bootstrap address
Security (encryption, authentication, and authorization)
Consumer group identifier
Interceptors

Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set:

bootstrap.servers
group.id
interceptor.classes
sasl.
security.
ssl.

If the config property contains an option that cannot be changed, it is disregarded, and a warning message is logged to the Cluster Operator log file. All other supported options are forwarded to MirrorMaker, including the following exceptions to the options configured by Strimzi:

Any ssl configuration for supported TLS versions and cipher suites

Important

The Cluster Operator does not validate keys or values in the config object provided. If an invalid configuration is provided, the MirrorMaker cluster might not start or might become unstable. In this case, fix the configuration so that the Cluster Operator can roll out the new configuration to all MirrorMaker nodes.

129.4. `groupId`

Use the consumer.groupId property to configure a consumer group identifier for the consumer.

Kafka MirrorMaker uses a Kafka consumer to consume messages, behaving like any other Kafka consumer client. Messages consumed from the source Kafka cluster are mirrored to a target Kafka cluster. A group identifier is required, as the consumer needs to be part of a consumer group for the assignment of partitions.

129.5. `KafkaMirrorMakerConsumerSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

numStreams

integer

Specifies the number of consumer stream threads to create.

offsetCommitInterval

integer

Specifies the offset auto-commit interval in ms. Default value is 60000.

bootstrapServers

string

A list of host:port pairs for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster.

groupId

string

A unique string that identifies the consumer group this consumer belongs to.

authentication

KafkaClientAuthenticationTls, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain, KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth

Authentication configuration for connecting to the cluster.

tls

Full list of KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec schema properties

TLS configuration for connecting MirrorMaker to the cluster.

config

map

The MirrorMaker consumer config. Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set: ssl., bootstrap.servers, group.id, sasl., security., interceptor.classes (with the exception of: ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm, ssl.cipher.suites, ssl.protocol, ssl.enabled.protocols).

130. `KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMakerSpec

Configures a MirrorMaker producer.

130.1. `abortOnSendFailure`

Use the producer.abortOnSendFailure property to configure how to handle message send failure from the producer.

By default, if an error occurs when sending a message from Kafka MirrorMaker to a Kafka cluster:

The Kafka MirrorMaker container is terminated in Kubernetes.
The container is then recreated.

If the abortOnSendFailure option is set to false, message sending errors are ignored.

130.2. `config`

Use the producer.config properties to configure Kafka options for the producer as keys.

The values can be one of the following JSON types:

String
Number
Boolean

Exceptions

You can specify and configure the options listed in the Apache Kafka configuration documentation for producers.

However, Strimzi takes care of configuring and managing options related to the following, which cannot be changed:

Kafka cluster bootstrap address
Security (encryption, authentication, and authorization)
Interceptors

Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set:

bootstrap.servers
interceptor.classes
sasl.
security.
ssl.

If the config property contains an option that cannot be changed, it is disregarded, and a warning message is logged to the Cluster Operator log file. All other supported options are forwarded to MirrorMaker, including the following exceptions to the options configured by Strimzi:

Any ssl configuration for supported TLS versions and cipher suites

Important

130.3. `KafkaMirrorMakerProducerSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

bootstrapServers

string

A list of host:port pairs for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster.

abortOnSendFailure

boolean

Flag to set the MirrorMaker to exit on a failed send. Default value is true.

authentication

KafkaClientAuthenticationTls, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain, KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth

Authentication configuration for connecting to the cluster.

config

map

The MirrorMaker producer config. Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set: ssl., bootstrap.servers, sasl., security., interceptor.classes (with the exception of: ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm, ssl.cipher.suites, ssl.protocol, ssl.enabled.protocols).

tls

TLS configuration for connecting MirrorMaker to the cluster.

131. `KafkaMirrorMakerTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMakerSpec

Property Property type Description

deployment

Template for Kafka MirrorMaker Deployment.

pod

Template for Kafka MirrorMaker Pods.

podDisruptionBudget

Template for Kafka MirrorMaker PodDisruptionBudget.

mirrorMakerContainer

Template for Kafka MirrorMaker container.

serviceAccount

Full list of KafkaBridgeSpec schema properties

Template for the Kafka MirrorMaker service account.

132. `KafkaMirrorMakerStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMaker

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

labelSelector

string

Label selector for pods providing this resource.

replicas

integer

The current number of pods being used to provide this resource.

133. `KafkaBridge` schema reference

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaBridgeSpec

The specification of the Kafka Bridge.

status

KafkaBridgeStatus

The status of the Kafka Bridge.

134. `KafkaBridgeSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridge

Configures a Kafka Bridge cluster.

Configuration options relate to:

Kafka cluster bootstrap address
Security (encryption, authentication, and authorization)
Consumer configuration
Producer configuration
HTTP configuration

134.1. Logging

Kafka Bridge has its own configurable loggers:

rootLogger.level
logger.<operation-id>

You can replace <operation-id> in the logger.<operation-id> logger to set log levels for specific operations:

createConsumer
deleteConsumer
subscribe
unsubscribe
poll
assign
commit
send
sendToPartition
seekToBeginning
seekToEnd
seek
healthy
ready
openapi

Each operation is defined according OpenAPI specification, and has a corresponding API endpoint through which the bridge receives requests from HTTP clients. You can change the log level on each endpoint to create fine-grained logging information about the incoming and outgoing HTTP requests.

Each logger has to be configured assigning it a name as http.openapi.operation.<operation-id>. For example, configuring the logging level for the send operation logger means defining the following:

logger.send.name = http.openapi.operation.send
logger.send.level = DEBUG

Kafka Bridge uses the Apache log4j2 logger implementation. Loggers are defined in the log4j2.properties file, which has the following default configuration for healthy and ready endpoints:

logger.healthy.name = http.openapi.operation.healthy
logger.healthy.level = WARN
logger.ready.name = http.openapi.operation.ready
logger.ready.level = WARN

The log level of all other operations is set to INFO by default.

Use the logging property to configure loggers and logger levels.

Here we see examples of inline and external logging.

Inline logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaBridge
spec:
  # ...
  logging:
    type: inline
    loggers:
      rootLogger.level: INFO
      # enabling DEBUG just for send operation
      logger.send.name: "http.openapi.operation.send"
      logger.send.level: DEBUG
  # ...

External logging

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaBridge
spec:
  # ...
  logging:
    type: external
    valueFrom:
      configMapKeyRef:
        name: customConfigMap
        key: bridge-logj42.properties
  # ...

Any available loggers that are not configured have their level set to OFF.

If the Kafka Bridge was deployed using the Cluster Operator, changes to Kafka Bridge logging levels are applied dynamically.

If you use external logging, a rolling update is triggered when logging appenders are changed.

Garbage collector (GC)

Garbage collector logging can also be enabled (or disabled) using the jvmOptions property.

134.2. `KafkaBridgeSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

replicas

integer

The number of pods in the Deployment. Defaults to 1.

image

string

The container image used for Kafka Bridge pods. If no image name is explicitly specified, the image name corresponds to the image specified in the Cluster Operator configuration. If an image name is not defined in the Cluster Operator configuration, a default value is used.

bootstrapServers

string

A list of host:port pairs for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster.

tls

KafkaClientAuthenticationTls, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain, KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth

TLS configuration for connecting Kafka Bridge to the cluster.

authentication

Authentication configuration for connecting to the cluster.

http

KafkaBridgeHttpConfig

The HTTP related configuration.

adminClient

KafkaBridgeAdminClientSpec

Kafka AdminClient related configuration.

consumer

KafkaBridgeConsumerSpec

Kafka consumer related configuration.

producer

KafkaBridgeProducerSpec

Kafka producer related configuration.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

jvmOptions

Currently not supported JVM Options for pods.

logging

Logging configuration for Kafka Bridge.

clientRackInitImage

string

The image of the init container used for initializing the client.rack.

rack

Configuration of the node label which will be used as the client.rack consumer configuration.

enableMetrics

boolean

Enable the metrics for the Kafka Bridge. Default is false.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking.

template

KafkaBridgeTemplate

Template for Kafka Bridge resources. The template allows users to specify how a Deployment and Pod is generated.

tracing

Full list of KafkaBridgeHttpConfig schema properties

The configuration of tracing in Kafka Bridge.

135. `KafkaBridgeHttpConfig` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec

Configures HTTP access to a Kafka cluster for the Kafka Bridge. The default HTTP configuration is for the Kafka Bridge to listen on port 8080.

Example Kafka Bridge HTTP configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaBridge
metadata:
  name: my-bridge
spec:
  # ...
  http:
    port: 8080
    cors:
      allowedOrigins: "https://strimzi.io"
      allowedMethods: "GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS,PATCH"
  # ...

As well as enabling HTTP access to a Kafka cluster, HTTP properties provide the capability to enable and define access control for the Kafka Bridge through Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS). CORS is a HTTP mechanism that allows browser access to selected resources from more than one origin. To configure CORS, you define a list of allowed resource origins and HTTP access methods. For the origins, you can use a URL or a Java regular expression.

135.1. `KafkaBridgeHttpConfig` schema properties

Property Property type Description

port

integer

The port which is the server listening on.

cors

KafkaBridgeHttpCors

CORS configuration for the HTTP Bridge.

136. `KafkaBridgeHttpCors` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeHttpConfig

Property

Property type

Description

allowedOrigins

string array

List of allowed origins. Java regular expressions can be used.

allowedMethods

string array

List of allowed HTTP methods.

137. `KafkaBridgeAdminClientSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec

Property

Property type

Description

config

map

The Kafka AdminClient configuration used for AdminClient instances created by the bridge.

138. `KafkaBridgeConsumerSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec

Full list of KafkaBridgeConsumerSpec schema properties

Configures consumer options for the Kafka Bridge.

Example Kafka Bridge consumer configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaBridge
metadata:
  name: my-bridge
spec:
  # ...
  consumer:
    enabled: true
    timeoutSeconds: 60
    config:
      auto.offset.reset: earliest
      enable.auto.commit: true
    # ...

Use the consumer.config properties to configure Kafka options for the consumer as keys.

The values can be one of the following JSON types:

String
Number
Boolean

Exceptions

You can specify and configure the options listed in the Apache Kafka configuration documentation for consumers.

However, Strimzi takes care of configuring and managing options related to the following, which cannot be changed:

Kafka cluster bootstrap address
Security (encryption, authentication, and authorization)
Consumer group identifier

Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set:

bootstrap.servers
group.id
sasl.
security.
ssl.

If the config property contains an option that cannot be changed, it is disregarded, and a warning message is logged to the Cluster Operator log file. All other supported options are forwarded to Kafka Bridge, including the following exceptions to the options configured by Strimzi:

Any ssl configuration for supported TLS versions and cipher suites

Important

The Cluster Operator does not validate keys or values in the config object. If an invalid configuration is provided, the Kafka Bridge deployment might not start or might become unstable. In this case, fix the configuration so that the Cluster Operator can roll out the new configuration to all Kafka Bridge nodes.

138.1. `KafkaBridgeConsumerSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

enabled

boolean

Whether the HTTP consumer should be enabled or disabled. The default is enabled (true).

timeoutSeconds

integer

The timeout in seconds for deleting inactive consumers, default is -1 (disabled).

config

map

The Kafka consumer configuration used for consumer instances created by the bridge. Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set: ssl., bootstrap.servers, group.id, sasl., security. (with the exception of: ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm, ssl.cipher.suites, ssl.protocol, ssl.enabled.protocols).

139. `KafkaBridgeProducerSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec

Full list of KafkaBridgeProducerSpec schema properties

Configures producer options for the Kafka Bridge.

Example Kafka Bridge producer configuration

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaBridge
metadata:
  name: my-bridge
spec:
  # ...
  producer:
    enabled: true
    config:
      acks: 1
      delivery.timeout.ms: 300000
    # ...

Use the producer.config properties to configure Kafka options for the producer as keys.

The values can be one of the following JSON types:

String
Number
Boolean

Exceptions

You can specify and configure the options listed in the Apache Kafka configuration documentation for producers.

However, Strimzi takes care of configuring and managing options related to the following, which cannot be changed:

Kafka cluster bootstrap address
Security (encryption, authentication, and authorization)
Consumer group identifier

Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set:

bootstrap.servers
sasl.
security.
ssl.

If the config property contains an option that cannot be changed, it is disregarded, and a warning message is logged to the Cluster Operator log file. All other supported options are forwarded to Kafka Bridge, including the following exceptions to the options configured by Strimzi:

Any ssl configuration for supported TLS versions and cipher suites

Important

The Cluster Operator does not validate the keys or values of config properties. If an invalid configuration is provided, the Kafka Bridge deployment might not start or might become unstable. In this case, fix the configuration so that the Cluster Operator can roll out the new configuration to all Kafka Bridge nodes.

139.1. `KafkaBridgeProducerSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

enabled

boolean

Whether the HTTP producer should be enabled or disabled. The default is enabled (true).

config

map

The Kafka producer configuration used for producer instances created by the bridge. Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set: ssl., bootstrap.servers, sasl., security. (with the exception of: ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm, ssl.cipher.suites, ssl.protocol, ssl.enabled.protocols).

140. `KafkaBridgeTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridgeSpec

Property Property type Description

deployment

Template for Kafka Bridge Deployment.

pod

Template for Kafka Bridge Pods.

apiService

Template for Kafka Bridge API Service.

podDisruptionBudget

Template for Kafka Bridge PodDisruptionBudget.

bridgeContainer

Template for the Kafka Bridge container.

clusterRoleBinding

Template for the Kafka Bridge ClusterRoleBinding.

serviceAccount

Template for the Kafka Bridge service account.

initContainer

Full list of AutoRestart schema properties

Template for the Kafka Bridge init container.

141. `KafkaBridgeStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaBridge

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

url

string

The URL at which external client applications can access the Kafka Bridge.

replicas

integer

The current number of pods being used to provide this resource.

labelSelector

string

Label selector for pods providing this resource.

142. `KafkaConnector` schema reference

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaConnectorSpec

The specification of the Kafka Connector.

status

KafkaConnectorStatus

The status of the Kafka Connector.

143. `KafkaConnectorSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnector

Property Property type Description

class

string

The Class for the Kafka Connector.

tasksMax

integer

The maximum number of tasks for the Kafka Connector.

autoRestart

AutoRestart

Automatic restart of connector and tasks configuration.

config

map

The Kafka Connector configuration. The following properties cannot be set: name, connector.class, tasks.max.

pause

boolean

The pause property has been deprecated. Deprecated in Strimzi 0.38.0, use state instead. Whether the connector should be paused. Defaults to false.

state

string (one of [running, paused, stopped])

The state the connector should be in. Defaults to running.

listOffsets

ListOffsets

Configuration for listing offsets.

alterOffsets

AlterOffsets

Configuration for altering offsets.

144. `AutoRestart` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnectorSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ConnectorSpec

Configures automatic restarts for connectors and tasks that are in a FAILED state.

When enabled, a back-off algorithm applies the automatic restart to each failed connector and its tasks. An incremental back-off interval is calculated using the formula n * n + n where n represents the number of previous restarts. This interval is capped at a maximum of 60 minutes. Consequently, a restart occurs immediately, followed by restarts after 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, 42, 56 minutes, and then at 60-minute intervals. By default, Strimzi initiates restarts of the connector and its tasks indefinitely. However, you can use the maxRestarts property to set a maximum on the number of restarts. If maxRestarts is configured and the connector still fails even after the final restart attempt, you must then restart the connector manually.

For Kafka Connect connectors, use the autoRestart property of the KafkaConnector resource to enable automatic restarts of failed connectors and tasks.

Enabling automatic restarts of failed connectors for Kafka Connect

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnector
metadata:
  name: my-source-connector
spec:
  autoRestart:
    enabled: true

If you prefer, you can also set a maximum limit on the number of restarts.

Enabling automatic restarts of failed connectors for Kafka Connect with limited number of restarts

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnector
metadata:
  name: my-source-connector
spec:
  autoRestart:
    enabled: true
    maxRestarts: 10

For MirrorMaker 2, use the autoRestart property of connectors in the KafkaMirrorMaker2 resource to enable automatic restarts of failed connectors and tasks.

Enabling automatic restarts of failed connectors for MirrorMaker 2

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaMirrorMaker2
metadata:
  name: my-mm2-cluster
spec:
  mirrors:
  - sourceConnector:
      autoRestart:
        enabled: true
      # ...
    heartbeatConnector:
      autoRestart:
        enabled: true
      # ...
    checkpointConnector:
      autoRestart:
        enabled: true
      # ...

144.1. `AutoRestart` schema properties

Property

Property type

Description

enabled

boolean

Whether automatic restart for failed connectors and tasks should be enabled or disabled.

maxRestarts

integer

The maximum number of connector restarts that the operator will try. If the connector remains in a failed state after reaching this limit, it must be restarted manually by the user. Defaults to an unlimited number of restarts.

145. `ListOffsets` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnectorSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ConnectorSpec

Property Property type Description

toConfigMap

LocalObjectReference

Reference to the ConfigMap where the list of offsets will be written to.

146. `AlterOffsets` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnectorSpec, KafkaMirrorMaker2ConnectorSpec

Property Property type Description

fromConfigMap

LocalObjectReference

Reference to the ConfigMap where the new offsets are stored.

147. `KafkaConnectorStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnector

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

autoRestart

AutoRestartStatus

The auto restart status.

connectorStatus

map

The connector status, as reported by the Kafka Connect REST API.

tasksMax

integer

The maximum number of tasks for the Kafka Connector.

topics

string array

The list of topics used by the Kafka Connector.

148. `AutoRestartStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaConnectorStatus, KafkaMirrorMaker2Status

Property

Property type

Description

count

integer

The number of times the connector or task is restarted.

connectorName

string

The name of the connector being restarted.

lastRestartTimestamp

string

The last time the automatic restart was attempted. The required format is 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ' in the UTC time zone.

149. `KafkaMirrorMaker2` schema reference

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec

The specification of the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 cluster.

status

KafkaMirrorMaker2Status

The status of the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 cluster.

150. `KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMaker2

Property Property type Description

version

string

The Kafka Connect version. Defaults to the latest version. Consult the user documentation to understand the process required to upgrade or downgrade the version.

replicas

integer

The number of pods in the Kafka Connect group. Defaults to 3.

image

string

connectCluster

string

The cluster alias used for Kafka Connect. The value must match the alias of the target Kafka cluster as specified in the spec.clusters configuration. The target Kafka cluster is used by the underlying Kafka Connect framework for its internal topics.

clusters

KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec array

Kafka clusters for mirroring.

mirrors

KafkaMirrorMaker2MirrorSpec array

Configuration of the MirrorMaker 2 connectors.

resources

The maximum limits for CPU and memory resources and the requested initial resources.

livenessProbe

Pod liveness checking.

readinessProbe

Pod readiness checking.

jvmOptions

JVM Options for pods.

jmxOptions

JMX Options.

logging

Logging configuration for Kafka Connect.

clientRackInitImage

string

The image of the init container used for initializing the client.rack.

rack

Configuration of the node label which will be used as the client.rack consumer configuration.

metricsConfig

Metrics configuration.

tracing

Full list of KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec schema properties

The configuration of tracing in Kafka Connect.

template

KafkaConnectTemplate

Template for Kafka Connect and Kafka MirrorMaker 2 resources. The template allows users to specify how the Pods, Service, and other services are generated.

externalConfiguration

ExternalConfiguration

151. `KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec

Configures Kafka clusters for mirroring.

Use the config properties to configure Kafka options, restricted to those properties not managed directly by Strimzi.

For client connection using a specific cipher suite for a TLS version, you can configure allowed ssl properties. You can also configure the ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm property to enable or disable hostname verification.

151.1. `KafkaMirrorMaker2ClusterSpec` schema properties

Property Property type Description

alias

string

Alias used to reference the Kafka cluster.

bootstrapServers

string

A comma-separated list of host:port pairs for establishing the connection to the Kafka cluster.

tls

KafkaClientAuthenticationTls, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha256, KafkaClientAuthenticationScramSha512, KafkaClientAuthenticationPlain, KafkaClientAuthenticationOAuth

TLS configuration for connecting MirrorMaker 2 connectors to a cluster.

authentication

Authentication configuration for connecting to the cluster.

config

map

The MirrorMaker 2 cluster config. Properties with the following prefixes cannot be set: ssl., sasl., security., listeners, plugin.path, rest., bootstrap.servers, consumer.interceptor.classes, producer.interceptor.classes (with the exception of: ssl.endpoint.identification.algorithm, ssl.cipher.suites, ssl.protocol, ssl.enabled.protocols).

152. `KafkaMirrorMaker2MirrorSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMaker2Spec

Property Property type Description

sourceCluster

string

The alias of the source cluster used by the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 connectors. The alias must match a cluster in the list at spec.clusters.

targetCluster

string

The alias of the target cluster used by the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 connectors. The alias must match a cluster in the list at spec.clusters.

sourceConnector

KafkaMirrorMaker2ConnectorSpec

The specification of the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 source connector.

heartbeatConnector

KafkaMirrorMaker2ConnectorSpec

The specification of the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 heartbeat connector.

checkpointConnector

KafkaMirrorMaker2ConnectorSpec

The specification of the Kafka MirrorMaker 2 checkpoint connector.

topicsPattern

string

A regular expression matching the topics to be mirrored, for example, "topic1|topic2|topic3". Comma-separated lists are also supported.

topicsBlacklistPattern

string

The topicsBlacklistPattern property has been deprecated, and should now be configured using .spec.mirrors.topicsExcludePattern. A regular expression matching the topics to exclude from mirroring. Comma-separated lists are also supported.

topicsExcludePattern

string

A regular expression matching the topics to exclude from mirroring. Comma-separated lists are also supported.

groupsPattern

string

A regular expression matching the consumer groups to be mirrored. Comma-separated lists are also supported.

groupsBlacklistPattern

string

The groupsBlacklistPattern property has been deprecated, and should now be configured using .spec.mirrors.groupsExcludePattern. A regular expression matching the consumer groups to exclude from mirroring. Comma-separated lists are also supported.

groupsExcludePattern

string

A regular expression matching the consumer groups to exclude from mirroring. Comma-separated lists are also supported.

153. `KafkaMirrorMaker2ConnectorSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMaker2MirrorSpec

Property Property type Description

tasksMax

integer

The maximum number of tasks for the Kafka Connector.

pause

boolean

The pause property has been deprecated. Deprecated in Strimzi 0.38.0, use state instead. Whether the connector should be paused. Defaults to false.

config

map

The Kafka Connector configuration. The following properties cannot be set: name, connector.class, tasks.max.

state

string (one of [running, paused, stopped])

The state the connector should be in. Defaults to running.

autoRestart

AutoRestart

Automatic restart of connector and tasks configuration.

listOffsets

ListOffsets

Configuration for listing offsets.

alterOffsets

AlterOffsets

Configuration for altering offsets.

154. `KafkaMirrorMaker2Status` schema reference

Used in: KafkaMirrorMaker2

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

url

string

The URL of the REST API endpoint for managing and monitoring Kafka Connect connectors.

connectors

map array

List of MirrorMaker 2 connector statuses, as reported by the Kafka Connect REST API.

autoRestartStatuses

AutoRestartStatus array

List of MirrorMaker 2 connector auto restart statuses.

connectorPlugins

ConnectorPlugin array

The list of connector plugins available in this Kafka Connect deployment.

labelSelector

string

Label selector for pods providing this resource.

replicas

integer

The current number of pods being used to provide this resource.

155. `KafkaRebalance` schema reference

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaRebalanceSpec

The specification of the Kafka rebalance.

status

KafkaRebalanceStatus

The status of the Kafka rebalance.

156. `KafkaRebalanceSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaRebalance

Property Property type Description

mode

string (one of [remove-disks, remove-brokers, full, add-brokers])

Mode to run the rebalancing. The supported modes are full, add-brokers, remove-brokers. If not specified, the full mode is used by default.

full mode runs the rebalancing across all the brokers in the cluster.
add-brokers mode can be used after scaling up the cluster to move some replicas to the newly added brokers.
remove-brokers mode can be used before scaling down the cluster to move replicas out of the brokers to be removed.
remove-disks mode can be used to move data across the volumes within the same broker .

brokers

integer array

The list of newly added brokers in case of scaling up or the ones to be removed in case of scaling down to use for rebalancing. This list can be used only with rebalancing mode add-brokers and removed-brokers. It is ignored with full mode.

goals

string array

A list of goals, ordered by decreasing priority, to use for generating and executing the rebalance proposal. The supported goals are available at https://github.com/linkedin/cruise-control#goals. If an empty goals list is provided, the goals declared in the default.goals Cruise Control configuration parameter are used.

skipHardGoalCheck

boolean

Whether to allow the hard goals specified in the Kafka CR to be skipped in optimization proposal generation. This can be useful when some of those hard goals are preventing a balance solution being found. Default is false.

rebalanceDisk

boolean

Enables intra-broker disk balancing, which balances disk space utilization between disks on the same broker. Only applies to Kafka deployments that use JBOD storage with multiple disks. When enabled, inter-broker balancing is disabled. Default is false.

excludedTopics

string

A regular expression where any matching topics will be excluded from the calculation of optimization proposals. This expression will be parsed by the java.util.regex.Pattern class; for more information on the supported format consult the documentation for that class.

concurrentPartitionMovementsPerBroker

integer

The upper bound of ongoing partition replica movements going into/out of each broker. Default is 5.

concurrentIntraBrokerPartitionMovements

integer

The upper bound of ongoing partition replica movements between disks within each broker. Default is 2.

concurrentLeaderMovements

integer

The upper bound of ongoing partition leadership movements. Default is 1000.

replicationThrottle

integer

The upper bound, in bytes per second, on the bandwidth used to move replicas. There is no limit by default.

replicaMovementStrategies

string array

A list of strategy class names used to determine the execution order for the replica movements in the generated optimization proposal. By default BaseReplicaMovementStrategy is used, which will execute the replica movements in the order that they were generated.

moveReplicasOffVolumes

BrokerAndVolumeIds array

List of brokers and their corresponding volumes from which replicas need to be moved.

157. `BrokerAndVolumeIds` schema reference

Used in: KafkaRebalanceSpec

Property

Property type

Description

brokerId

integer

ID of the broker that contains the disk from which you want to move the partition replicas.

volumeIds

integer array

IDs of the disks from which the partition replicas need to be moved.

158. `KafkaRebalanceStatus` schema reference

Used in: KafkaRebalance

Property Property type Description

conditions

Condition array

List of status conditions.

observedGeneration

integer

The generation of the CRD that was last reconciled by the operator.

sessionId

string

The session identifier for requests to Cruise Control pertaining to this KafkaRebalance resource. This is used by the Kafka Rebalance operator to track the status of ongoing rebalancing operations.

optimizationResult

map

A JSON object describing the optimization result.

159. `KafkaNodePool` schema reference

Property Property type Description

spec

KafkaNodePoolSpec

The specification of the KafkaNodePool.

status

KafkaNodePoolStatus

The status of the KafkaNodePool.

160. `KafkaNodePoolSpec` schema reference

Used in: KafkaNodePool

Property Property type Description

replicas

integer

The number of pods in the pool.

storage

EphemeralStorage, PersistentClaimStorage, JbodStorage

Storage configuration (disk). Cannot be updated.

roles

string (one or more of [controller, broker]) array

The roles that the nodes in this pool will have when KRaft mode is enabled. Supported values are 'broker' and 'controller'. This field is required. When KRaft mode is disabled, the only allowed value if broker.

resources

CPU and memory resources to reserve.

jvmOptions

JVM Options for pods.

template

KafkaNodePoolTemplate

Template for pool resources. The template allows users to specify how the resources belonging to this pool are generated.

161. `KafkaNodePoolTemplate` schema reference

Used in: KafkaNodePoolSpec

Property Property type Description

podSet

Template for Kafka StrimziPodSet resource.

pod

Template for Kafka Pods.

perPodService

Template for Kafka per-pod Services used for access from outside of Kubernetes.

perPodRoute

Template for Kafka per-pod Routes used for access from outside of OpenShift.

perPodIngress

Template for Kafka per-pod Ingress used for access from outside of Kubernetes.

persistentVolumeClaim

Template for all Kafka PersistentVolumeClaims.

kafkaContainer

Template for the Kafka broker container.

initContainer