Resources
Learn, share, and explore Strimzi resources
Strimzi offers a range of support options — from official documentation and community discussions to practical tools and enterprise support. Whether you're just getting started or troubleshooting a production issue, there are resources available to help you.
Before asking a question, it's a good idea to check the documentation, quickstarts, and tutorials. If you still need help, make sure to include useful details like your Strimzi and Kubernetes versions, your environment, and any relevant logs or config snippets. You can also use the diagnostic tool to generate a ZIP file to share.
Start here
Start here
Read the docs
Official documentation for installing, configuring, and operating Strimzi
Quickstarts
Step-by-step guides to get Strimzi up and running quickly
Video tutorials
Strimzi walkthroughs and demos
Browse the blog
Read about new features, real-world use cases, and tips from the Strimzi community
Try the diagnostic tool
Generate logs and config reports to share when asking for help
Ask the community
Ask the community
Get help on Slack
Get support and ask questions on the #strimzi CNCF Slack channel
Ask on GitHub discussions
Post questions, browse topics, and join ongoing conversations
Join the users mailing list
Subscribe for updates and user-focused announcements
Join the developers mailing list
Subscribe for development updates, proposals, and contributor discussions
Talks & presentations
Talks & presentations
See how Strimzi is used in real-world scenarios through talks and conference sessions.
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-04 | StrimziCon 2025 | StrimziCon 2025 — session recordings | Playlist |
| 2025-05-21 | Current London 2025 | Migrating Kafka from ZooKeeper to KRaft: adventures in operations | Recording |
| 2025-04-02 | KubeCon Europe 2025 | Simplifying Apache Kafka on Kubernetes With Strimzi | Recording |
| 2025-03-31 | DoK Day @ KubeCon Europe 2025 | Mastering Kafka Workload Balancing With Strimzi’s Cruise Control Integration | Recording |
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-21 | Cloud-Native Club — Project Spotlight | Apache Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi | Recording |
| 2024-11-15 | KubeCon NA — Maintainer Track | Strimzi: Data Streaming on Kubernetes with Apache Kafka | Recording |
| 2024-11-14 | KubeCon NA | Elastic Data Streaming: Autoscaling Apache Kafka | Recording |
| 2024-11-12 | KubeCon NA — Project Lightning Talk | Strimzi and the Future of Apache Kafka on Kubernetes | Recording |
| 2024-10-08 | Axual Kafka Meetup Utrecht | KRaft: Apache Kafka without its ZooKeeper | Recording |
| 2024-06-21 | DevConf.CZ 2024 | Released From the Cage: Apache Kafka Without Its ZooKeeper | Recording |
| 2024-06-15 | KCD Czech & Slovak 2024 | Growing out of StatefulSets | Recording |
| 2024-05-22 | StrimziCon 2024 | StrimziCon 2024 — session recordings | Playlist |
| 2024-03-27 | DoK Day @ KubeCon Europe 2024 | Released From the Cage: Apache Kafka Without Its ZooKeeper | Recording |
| 2024-03-26 | KubeCon Europe 2024 | Strimzi: Toward a ZooKeeper-less Future | Recording |
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-29 | CNCF Napoli Cloud Native Community Group | Apache Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi | Recording Slides Demo |
| 2023-11-09 | DoK Day @ KubeCon NA 2023 | Make Your Kafka Cluster Production-ready | Recording |
| 2023-01-19 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: Cluster Balancing | Recording |
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-23 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: Local Storage | Recording |
| 2022-09-13 | Video presentation | Leader Election — Running Cluster Operator with multiple replicas | Recording |
| 2022-05-26 | Video presentation | Road to KRaft — ZooKeeper-less Kafka in Strimzi 0.29.0 | Recording |
| 2022-05-23 | Video presentation | StrimziPodSets — What it is and why should you care? | Recording |
| 2022-02-03 | DoK Day EU @ KubeCon | Build your own social media analytics with Apache Kafka | Recording Slides Demo |
| 2022-02-03 | DevConf.CZ 2022 | Build your own social media analytics with Apache Kafka | Recording Slides Demo |
| 2022-01-05 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: How many disks do I need? | Recording |
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-25 | CloudGen 2021 | Operate Kubernetes workloads: extend the platform with the operator pattern! | Recording Slides unavailable |
| 2021-06-21 | OpenShift Commons | Finding a Work-Load Balance: Cruise Control for Kafka on Kubernetes | Recording Slides unavailable |
| 2021-05-11 | Kafka Summit 2021 | Everything you ever needed to know about Kafka on Kubernetes but were afraid to ask | Recording Slides |
| 2021-04-26 | DevConf.CZ 2021 | Apache Kafka as a Monitoring Data Pipeline | Recording Slides Demo |
| 2021-04-06 | DevConf.CZ 2021 | Formula 1 telemetry processing using Kafka Streams | Recording Demo Slides unavailable |
| 2021-01-07 | Video presentation | Kafka Connect Build: Declarative management of connector plugins in Kafka Connect | Recording |
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-22 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: Reliability | Recording |
| 2020-12-15 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: Dedicated Nodes and Affinity | Recording |
| 2020-12-01 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: Resources | Recording |
| 2020-11-24 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: Rack-awareness | Recording |
| 2020-11-17 | DevDay.be 2020 | Strimzi: running your Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes | Recording Demo Slides unavailable |
| 2020-11-16 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: Storage | Recording |
| 2020-11-12 | Video series episode | Make your Kafka cluster production-ready: Introduction | Recording |
| 2020-10-16 | Video presentation | Machine Learning processing pipeline on Kubernetes with Strimzi and Apache Kafka | Recording Demo |
| 2020-04-15 | Video presentation | Develop Apache Kafka applications with Strimzi and Minikube | Recording |
| 2020-03-30 | DevConf.CZ 2020 | Metamorphosis: When Kafka meets Camel | Recording Slides Demo |
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-10 | Istanbul JUG Meetup | Strimzi: Distributed Streaming with Apache Kafka in Kubernetes | Recording Slides |
| 2019-05-23 | Strata SF / Lightbend Webinar / Toronto Data Science Meetup | Running Kafka on Kubernetes with Strimzi | Recording Slides Demo |
| 2019-04 | Modern Integration & Application Development Day | Strimzi: how Apache Kafka has fallen in love with Kubernetes | Slides unavailable |
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10 | Red Hat Open Source Day 2018 | Kafka on OpenShift: make it easy with AMQ Streams | Slides unavailable |
| 2018-10 | OpenSlava 2018 | Strimzi: Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes and OpenShift | Recording unavailable |
| 2018-07-23 | Operator Framework SIG | Introduction to Strimzi Operator | Recording Slides unavailable |
| 2018-05-18 | Riviera Dev | Apache Kafka: Turning your Architecture Inside-Out | Slides |
| 2018-05-11 | Red Hat Summit | Introducing AMQ Streams—data streaming with Apache Kafka | Recording Slides unavailable |
| 2018-04-02 | Kyiv Scala Group | Introduction to Apache Kafka | Recording |
| 2018-04-02 | Kyiv Scala Group | Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes | Recording |
| 2018-03 | Walgreens Boots Alliance Conference | Meet Apache Kafka: data streaming in your hands | Slides unavailable |
| Date | Event | Title | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ongoing | Video series | What’s new in Strimzi | Playlist Repo |
