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README.md

Apache Kafka packaged by Bitnami

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform designed to build real-time pipelines and can be used as a message broker or as a replacement for a log aggregation solution for big data applications.

Overview of Apache Kafka

Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR

helm repo add my-repo https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
helm install my-release my-repo/kafka

Introduction

This chart bootstraps a Kafka deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.

Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters.

Prerequisites

  • Kubernetes 1.19+
  • Helm 3.2.0+
  • PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure

Installing the Chart

To install the chart with the release name my-release:

helm repo add my-repo https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
helm install my-release my-repo/kafka

These commands deploy Kafka on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

Tip: List all releases using helm list

Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:

helm delete my-release

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

Parameters

Global parameters

Name Description Value
global.imageRegistry Global Docker image registry ""
global.imagePullSecrets Global Docker registry secret names as an array []
global.storageClass Global StorageClass for Persistent Volume(s) ""

Common parameters

Name Description Value
kubeVersion Override Kubernetes version ""
nameOverride String to partially override common.names.fullname ""
fullnameOverride String to fully override common.names.fullname ""
clusterDomain Default Kubernetes cluster domain cluster.local
commonLabels Labels to add to all deployed objects {}
commonAnnotations Annotations to add to all deployed objects {}
extraDeploy Array of extra objects to deploy with the release []
serviceBindings.enabled Create secret for service binding (Experimental) false
diagnosticMode.enabled Enable diagnostic mode (all probes will be disabled and the command will be overridden) false
diagnosticMode.command Command to override all containers in the statefulset ["sleep"]
diagnosticMode.args Args to override all containers in the statefulset ["infinity"]

Kafka parameters

Name Description Value
image.registry Kafka image registry docker.io
image.repository Kafka image repository bitnami/kafka
image.tag Kafka image tag (immutable tags are recommended) 3.4.0-debian-11-r4
image.digest Kafka image digest in the way sha256:aa.... Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag ""
image.pullPolicy Kafka image pull policy IfNotPresent
image.pullSecrets Specify docker-registry secret names as an array []
image.debug Specify if debug values should be set false
config Configuration file for Kafka. Auto-generated based on other parameters when not specified ""
existingConfigmap ConfigMap with Kafka Configuration ""
log4j An optional log4j.properties file to overwrite the default of the Kafka brokers ""
existingLog4jConfigMap The name of an existing ConfigMap containing a log4j.properties file ""
heapOpts Kafka Java Heap size -Xmx1024m -Xms1024m
deleteTopicEnable Switch to enable topic deletion or not false
autoCreateTopicsEnable Switch to enable auto creation of topics. Enabling auto creation of topics not recommended for production or similar environments true
logFlushIntervalMessages The number of messages to accept before forcing a flush of data to disk _10000
logFlushIntervalMs The maximum amount of time a message can sit in a log before we force a flush 1000
logRetentionBytes A size-based retention policy for logs _1073741824
logRetentionCheckIntervalMs The interval at which log segments are checked to see if they can be deleted 300000
logRetentionHours The minimum age of a log file to be eligible for deletion due to age 168
logSegmentBytes The maximum size of a log segment file. When this size is reached a new log segment will be created _1073741824
logsDirs A comma separated list of directories in which kafka's log data is kept /bitnami/kafka/data
maxMessageBytes The largest record batch size allowed by Kafka _1000012
defaultReplicationFactor Default replication factors for automatically created topics 1
offsetsTopicReplicationFactor The replication factor for the offsets topic 1
transactionStateLogReplicationFactor The replication factor for the transaction topic 1
transactionStateLogMinIsr Overridden min.insync.replicas config for the transaction topic 1
numIoThreads The number of threads doing disk I/O 8
numNetworkThreads The number of threads handling network requests 3
numPartitions The default number of log partitions per topic 1
numRecoveryThreadsPerDataDir The number of threads per data directory to be used for log recovery at startup and flushing at shutdown 1
socketReceiveBufferBytes The receive buffer (SO_RCVBUF) used by the socket server 102400
socketRequestMaxBytes The maximum size of a request that the socket server will accept (protection against OOM) _104857600
socketSendBufferBytes The send buffer (SO_SNDBUF) used by the socket server 102400
zookeeperConnectionTimeoutMs Timeout in ms for connecting to ZooKeeper 6000
zookeeperChrootPath Path which puts data under some path in the global ZooKeeper namespace ""
authorizerClassName The Authorizer is configured by setting authorizer.class.name=kafka.security.authorizer.AclAuthorizer in server.properties ""
allowEveryoneIfNoAclFound By default, if a resource has no associated ACLs, then no one is allowed to access that resource except super users true
superUsers You can add super users in server.properties User:admin
auth.clientProtocol Authentication protocol for communications with clients. Allowed protocols: plaintext, tls, mtls, sasl and sasl_tls plaintext
auth.externalClientProtocol Authentication protocol for communications with external clients. Defaults to value of auth.clientProtocol. Allowed protocols: plaintext, tls, mtls, sasl and sasl_tls ""
auth.interBrokerProtocol Authentication protocol for inter-broker communications. Allowed protocols: plaintext, tls, mtls, sasl and sasl_tls plaintext
auth.sasl.mechanisms SASL mechanisms when either auth.interBrokerProtocol, auth.clientProtocol or auth.externalClientProtocol are sasl. Allowed types: plain, scram-sha-256, scram-sha-512 plain,scram-sha-256,scram-sha-512
auth.sasl.interBrokerMechanism SASL mechanism for inter broker communication. plain
auth.sasl.jaas.clientUsers Kafka client user list ["user"]
auth.sasl.jaas.clientPasswords Kafka client passwords. This is mandatory if more than one user is specified in clientUsers []
auth.sasl.jaas.interBrokerUser Kafka inter broker communication user for SASL authentication admin
auth.sasl.jaas.interBrokerPassword Kafka inter broker communication password for SASL authentication ""
auth.sasl.jaas.zookeeperUser Kafka ZooKeeper user for SASL authentication ""
auth.sasl.jaas.zookeeperPassword Kafka ZooKeeper password for SASL authentication ""
auth.sasl.jaas.existingSecret Name of the existing secret containing credentials for clientUsers, interBrokerUser and zookeeperUser ""
auth.tls.type Format to use for TLS certificates. Allowed types: jks and pem jks
auth.tls.pemChainIncluded Flag to denote that the Certificate Authority (CA) certificates are bundled with the endpoint cert. false
auth.tls.existingSecrets Array existing secrets containing the TLS certificates for the Kafka brokers []
auth.tls.autoGenerated Generate automatically self-signed TLS certificates for Kafka brokers. Currently only supported if auth.tls.type is pem false
auth.tls.password Password to access the JKS files or PEM key when they are password-protected. ""
auth.tls.existingSecret Name of the secret containing the password to access the JKS files or PEM key when they are password-protected. (key: password) ""
auth.tls.jksTruststoreSecret Name of the existing secret containing your truststore if truststore not existing or different from the ones in the auth.tls.existingSecrets ""
auth.tls.jksKeystoreSAN The secret key from the auth.tls.existingSecrets containing the keystore with a SAN certificate ""
auth.tls.jksTruststore The secret key from the auth.tls.existingSecrets or auth.tls.jksTruststoreSecret containing the truststore ""
auth.tls.endpointIdentificationAlgorithm The endpoint identification algorithm to validate server hostname using server certificate https
auth.zookeeper.tls.enabled Enable TLS for Zookeeper client connections. false
auth.zookeeper.tls.type Format to use for TLS certificates. Allowed types: jks and pem. jks
auth.zookeeper.tls.verifyHostname Hostname validation. true
auth.zookeeper.tls.existingSecret Name of the existing secret containing the TLS certificates for ZooKeeper client communications. ""
auth.zookeeper.tls.existingSecretKeystoreKey The secret key from the auth.zookeeper.tls.existingSecret containing the Keystore. zookeeper.keystore.jks
auth.zookeeper.tls.existingSecretTruststoreKey The secret key from the auth.zookeeper.tls.existingSecret containing the Truststore. zookeeper.truststore.jks
auth.zookeeper.tls.passwordsSecret Existing secret containing Keystore and Truststore passwords. ""
auth.zookeeper.tls.passwordsSecretKeystoreKey The secret key from the auth.zookeeper.tls.passwordsSecret containing the password for the Keystore. keystore-password
auth.zookeeper.tls.passwordsSecretTruststoreKey The secret key from the auth.zookeeper.tls.passwordsSecret containing the password for the Truststore. truststore-password
listeners The address(es) the socket server listens on. Auto-calculated it's set to an empty array []
advertisedListeners The address(es) (hostname:port) the broker will advertise to producers and consumers. Auto-calculated it's set to an empty array []
listenerSecurityProtocolMap The protocol->listener mapping. Auto-calculated it's set to nil ""
allowPlaintextListener Allow to use the PLAINTEXT listener true
interBrokerListenerName The listener that the brokers should communicate on INTERNAL
command Override Kafka container command ["/scripts/setup.sh"]
args Override Kafka container arguments []
extraEnvVars Extra environment variables to add to Kafka pods []
extraEnvVarsCM ConfigMap with extra environment variables ""
extraEnvVarsSecret Secret with extra environment variables ""

Statefulset parameters

Name Description Value
replicaCount Number of Kafka nodes 1
minBrokerId Minimal broker.id value, nodes increment their broker.id respectively 0
brokerRackAssignment Set Broker Assignment for multi tenant environment Allowed values: aws-az ""
containerPorts.client Kafka client container port 9092
containerPorts.internal Kafka inter-broker container port 9093
containerPorts.external Kafka external container port 9094
livenessProbe.enabled Enable livenessProbe on Kafka containers true
livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for livenessProbe 10
livenessProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for livenessProbe 10
livenessProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for livenessProbe 5
livenessProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for livenessProbe 3
livenessProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for livenessProbe 1
readinessProbe.enabled Enable readinessProbe on Kafka containers true
readinessProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for readinessProbe 5
readinessProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for readinessProbe 10
readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for readinessProbe 5
readinessProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for readinessProbe 6
readinessProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for readinessProbe 1
startupProbe.enabled Enable startupProbe on Kafka containers false
startupProbe.initialDelaySeconds Initial delay seconds for startupProbe 30
startupProbe.periodSeconds Period seconds for startupProbe 10
startupProbe.timeoutSeconds Timeout seconds for startupProbe 1
startupProbe.failureThreshold Failure threshold for startupProbe 15
startupProbe.successThreshold Success threshold for startupProbe 1
customLivenessProbe Custom livenessProbe that overrides the default one {}
customReadinessProbe Custom readinessProbe that overrides the default one {}
customStartupProbe Custom startupProbe that overrides the default one {}
lifecycleHooks lifecycleHooks for the Kafka container to automate configuration before or after startup {}
resources.limits The resources limits for the container {}
resources.requests The requested resources for the container {}
podSecurityContext.enabled Enable security context for the pods true
podSecurityContext.fsGroup Set Kafka pod's Security Context fsGroup 1001
containerSecurityContext.enabled Enable Kafka containers' Security Context true
containerSecurityContext.runAsUser Set Kafka containers' Security Context runAsUser 1001
containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot Set Kafka containers' Security Context runAsNonRoot true
containerSecurityContext.allowPrivilegeEscalation Force the child process to be run as nonprivilege false
hostAliases Kafka pods host aliases []
hostNetwork Specify if host network should be enabled for Kafka pods false
hostIPC Specify if host IPC should be enabled for Kafka pods false
podLabels Extra labels for Kafka pods {}
podAnnotations Extra annotations for Kafka pods {}
podAffinityPreset Pod affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard ""
podAntiAffinityPreset Pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard soft
nodeAffinityPreset.type Node affinity preset type. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard ""
nodeAffinityPreset.key Node label key to match Ignored if affinity is set. ""
nodeAffinityPreset.values Node label values to match. Ignored if affinity is set. []
affinity Affinity for pod assignment {}
nodeSelector Node labels for pod assignment {}
tolerations Tolerations for pod assignment []
topologySpreadConstraints Topology Spread Constraints for pod assignment spread across your cluster among failure-domains. Evaluated as a template []
terminationGracePeriodSeconds Seconds the pod needs to gracefully terminate ""
podManagementPolicy StatefulSet controller supports relax its ordering guarantees while preserving its uniqueness and identity guarantees. There are two valid pod management policies: OrderedReady and Parallel Parallel
priorityClassName Name of the existing priority class to be used by kafka pods ""
schedulerName Name of the k8s scheduler (other than default) ""
updateStrategy.type Kafka statefulset strategy type RollingUpdate
updateStrategy.rollingUpdate Kafka statefulset rolling update configuration parameters {}
extraVolumes Optionally specify extra list of additional volumes for the Kafka pod(s) []
extraVolumeMounts Optionally specify extra list of additional volumeMounts for the Kafka container(s) []
sidecars Add additional sidecar containers to the Kafka pod(s) []
initContainers Add additional Add init containers to the Kafka pod(s) []
pdb.create Deploy a pdb object for the Kafka pod false
pdb.minAvailable Maximum number/percentage of unavailable Kafka replicas ""
pdb.maxUnavailable Maximum number/percentage of unavailable Kafka replicas 1

Traffic Exposure parameters

Name Description Value
service.type Kubernetes Service type ClusterIP
service.ports.client Kafka svc port for client connections 9092
service.ports.internal Kafka svc port for inter-broker connections 9093
service.ports.external Kafka svc port for external connections 9094
service.nodePorts.client Node port for the Kafka client connections ""
service.nodePorts.external Node port for the Kafka external connections ""
service.sessionAffinity Control where client requests go, to the same pod or round-robin None
service.sessionAffinityConfig Additional settings for the sessionAffinity {}
service.clusterIP Kafka service Cluster IP ""
service.loadBalancerIP Kafka service Load Balancer IP ""
service.loadBalancerSourceRanges Kafka service Load Balancer sources []
service.externalTrafficPolicy Kafka service external traffic policy Cluster
service.annotations Additional custom annotations for Kafka service {}
service.headless.publishNotReadyAddresses Indicates that any agent which deals with endpoints for this Service should disregard any indications of ready/not-ready false
service.headless.annotations Annotations for the headless service. {}
service.headless.labels Labels for the headless service. {}
service.extraPorts Extra ports to expose in the Kafka service (normally used with the sidecar value) []
externalAccess.enabled Enable Kubernetes external cluster access to Kafka brokers false
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.enabled Enable using an init container to auto-detect external IPs/ports by querying the K8s API false
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.image.registry Init container auto-discovery image registry docker.io
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.image.repository Init container auto-discovery image repository bitnami/kubectl
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.image.tag Init container auto-discovery image tag (immutable tags are recommended) 1.25.6-debian-11-r11
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.image.digest Kubectl image digest in the way sha256:aa.... Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag ""
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.image.pullPolicy Init container auto-discovery image pull policy IfNotPresent
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.image.pullSecrets Init container auto-discovery image pull secrets []
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.resources.limits The resources limits for the auto-discovery init container {}
externalAccess.autoDiscovery.resources.requests The requested resources for the auto-discovery init container {}
externalAccess.service.type Kubernetes Service type for external access. It can be NodePort, LoadBalancer or ClusterIP LoadBalancer
externalAccess.service.ports.external Kafka port used for external access when service type is LoadBalancer 9094
externalAccess.service.loadBalancerIPs Array of load balancer IPs for each Kafka broker. Length must be the same as replicaCount []
externalAccess.service.loadBalancerNames Array of load balancer Names for each Kafka broker. Length must be the same as replicaCount []
externalAccess.service.loadBalancerAnnotations Array of load balancer annotations for each Kafka broker. Length must be the same as replicaCount []
externalAccess.service.loadBalancerSourceRanges Address(es) that are allowed when service is LoadBalancer []
externalAccess.service.nodePorts Array of node ports used for each Kafka broker. Length must be the same as replicaCount []
externalAccess.service.useHostIPs Use service host IPs to configure Kafka external listener when service type is NodePort false
externalAccess.service.usePodIPs using the MY_POD_IP address for external access. false
externalAccess.service.domain Domain or external ip used to configure Kafka external listener when service type is NodePort or ClusterIP ""
externalAccess.service.publishNotReadyAddresses Indicates that any agent which deals with endpoints for this Service should disregard any indications of ready/not-ready false
externalAccess.service.labels Service labels for external access {}
externalAccess.service.annotations Service annotations for external access {}
externalAccess.service.extraPorts Extra ports to expose in the Kafka external service []
networkPolicy.enabled Specifies whether a NetworkPolicy should be created false
networkPolicy.allowExternal Don't require client label for connections true
networkPolicy.explicitNamespacesSelector A Kubernetes LabelSelector to explicitly select namespaces from which traffic could be allowed {}
networkPolicy.externalAccess.from customize the from section for External Access on tcp-external port []
networkPolicy.egressRules.customRules Custom network policy rule {}

Persistence parameters

Name Description Value
persistence.enabled Enable Kafka data persistence using PVC, note that ZooKeeper persistence is unaffected true
persistence.existingClaim A manually managed Persistent Volume and Claim ""
persistence.storageClass PVC Storage Class for Kafka data volume ""
persistence.accessModes Persistent Volume Access Modes ["ReadWriteOnce"]
persistence.size PVC Storage Request for Kafka data volume 8Gi
persistence.annotations Annotations for the PVC {}
persistence.labels Labels for the PVC {}
persistence.selector Selector to match an existing Persistent Volume for Kafka data PVC. If set, the PVC can't have a PV dynamically provisioned for it {}
persistence.mountPath Mount path of the Kafka data volume /bitnami/kafka
logPersistence.enabled Enable Kafka logs persistence using PVC, note that ZooKeeper persistence is unaffected false
logPersistence.existingClaim A manually managed Persistent Volume and Claim ""
logPersistence.storageClass PVC Storage Class for Kafka logs volume ""
logPersistence.accessModes Persistent Volume Access Modes ["ReadWriteOnce"]
logPersistence.size PVC Storage Request for Kafka logs volume 8Gi
logPersistence.annotations Annotations for the PVC {}
logPersistence.selector Selector to match an existing Persistent Volume for Kafka log data PVC. If set, the PVC can't have a PV dynamically provisioned for it {}
logPersistence.mountPath Mount path of the Kafka logs volume /opt/bitnami/kafka/logs

Volume Permissions parameters

Name Description Value
volumePermissions.enabled Enable init container that changes the owner and group of the persistent volume false
volumePermissions.image.registry Init container volume-permissions image registry docker.io
volumePermissions.image.repository Init container volume-permissions image repository bitnami/bitnami-shell
volumePermissions.image.tag Init container volume-permissions image tag (immutable tags are recommended) 11-debian-11-r87
volumePermissions.image.digest Init container volume-permissions image digest in the way sha256:aa.... Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag ""
volumePermissions.image.pullPolicy Init container volume-permissions image pull policy IfNotPresent
volumePermissions.image.pullSecrets Init container volume-permissions image pull secrets []
volumePermissions.resources.limits Init container volume-permissions resource limits {}
volumePermissions.resources.requests Init container volume-permissions resource requests {}
volumePermissions.containerSecurityContext.runAsUser User ID for the init container 0

Other Parameters

Name Description Value
serviceAccount.create Enable creation of ServiceAccount for Kafka pods true
serviceAccount.name The name of the service account to use. If not set and create is true, a name is generated ""
serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken Allows auto mount of ServiceAccountToken on the serviceAccount created true
serviceAccount.annotations Additional custom annotations for the ServiceAccount {}
rbac.create Whether to create & use RBAC resources or not false

Metrics parameters

Name Description Value
metrics.kafka.enabled Whether or not to create a standalone Kafka exporter to expose Kafka metrics false
metrics.kafka.image.registry Kafka exporter image registry docker.io
metrics.kafka.image.repository Kafka exporter image repository bitnami/kafka-exporter
metrics.kafka.image.tag Kafka exporter image tag (immutable tags are recommended) 1.6.0-debian-11-r62
metrics.kafka.image.digest Kafka exporter image digest in the way sha256:aa.... Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag ""
metrics.kafka.image.pullPolicy Kafka exporter image pull policy IfNotPresent
metrics.kafka.image.pullSecrets Specify docker-registry secret names as an array []
metrics.kafka.certificatesSecret Name of the existing secret containing the optional certificate and key files ""
metrics.kafka.tlsCert The secret key from the certificatesSecret if 'client-cert' key different from the default (cert-file) cert-file
metrics.kafka.tlsKey The secret key from the certificatesSecret if 'client-key' key different from the default (key-file) key-file
metrics.kafka.tlsCaSecret Name of the existing secret containing the optional ca certificate for Kafka exporter client authentication ""
metrics.kafka.tlsCaCert The secret key from the certificatesSecret or tlsCaSecret if 'ca-cert' key different from the default (ca-file) ca-file
metrics.kafka.extraFlags Extra flags to be passed to Kafka exporter {}
metrics.kafka.command Override Kafka exporter container command []
metrics.kafka.args Override Kafka exporter container arguments []
metrics.kafka.containerPorts.metrics Kafka exporter metrics container port 9308
metrics.kafka.resources.limits The resources limits for the container {}
metrics.kafka.resources.requests The requested resources for the container {}
metrics.kafka.podSecurityContext.enabled Enable security context for the pods true
metrics.kafka.podSecurityContext.fsGroup Set Kafka exporter pod's Security Context fsGroup 1001
metrics.kafka.containerSecurityContext.enabled Enable Kafka exporter containers' Security Context true
metrics.kafka.containerSecurityContext.runAsUser Set Kafka exporter containers' Security Context runAsUser 1001
metrics.kafka.containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot Set Kafka exporter containers' Security Context runAsNonRoot true
metrics.kafka.hostAliases Kafka exporter pods host aliases []
metrics.kafka.podLabels Extra labels for Kafka exporter pods {}
metrics.kafka.podAnnotations Extra annotations for Kafka exporter pods {}
metrics.kafka.podAffinityPreset Pod affinity preset. Ignored if metrics.kafka.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard ""
metrics.kafka.podAntiAffinityPreset Pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if metrics.kafka.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard soft
metrics.kafka.nodeAffinityPreset.type Node affinity preset type. Ignored if metrics.kafka.affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard ""
metrics.kafka.nodeAffinityPreset.key Node label key to match Ignored if metrics.kafka.affinity is set. ""
metrics.kafka.nodeAffinityPreset.values Node label values to match. Ignored if metrics.kafka.affinity is set. []
metrics.kafka.affinity Affinity for pod assignment {}
metrics.kafka.nodeSelector Node labels for pod assignment {}
metrics.kafka.tolerations Tolerations for pod assignment []
metrics.kafka.schedulerName Name of the k8s scheduler (other than default) for Kafka exporter ""
metrics.kafka.priorityClassName Kafka exporter pods' priorityClassName ""
metrics.kafka.topologySpreadConstraints Topology Spread Constraints for pod assignment []
metrics.kafka.extraVolumes Optionally specify extra list of additional volumes for the Kafka exporter pod(s) []
metrics.kafka.extraVolumeMounts Optionally specify extra list of additional volumeMounts for the Kafka exporter container(s) []
metrics.kafka.sidecars Add additional sidecar containers to the Kafka exporter pod(s) []
metrics.kafka.initContainers Add init containers to the Kafka exporter pods []
metrics.kafka.service.ports.metrics Kafka exporter metrics service port 9308
metrics.kafka.service.clusterIP Static clusterIP or None for headless services ""
metrics.kafka.service.sessionAffinity Control where client requests go, to the same pod or round-robin None
metrics.kafka.service.annotations Annotations for the Kafka exporter service {}
metrics.kafka.serviceAccount.create Enable creation of ServiceAccount for Kafka exporter pods true
metrics.kafka.serviceAccount.name The name of the service account to use. If not set and create is true, a name is generated ""
metrics.kafka.serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken Allows auto mount of ServiceAccountToken on the serviceAccount created true
metrics.jmx.enabled Whether or not to expose JMX metrics to Prometheus false
metrics.jmx.image.registry JMX exporter image registry docker.io
metrics.jmx.image.repository JMX exporter image repository bitnami/jmx-exporter
metrics.jmx.image.tag JMX exporter image tag (immutable tags are recommended) 0.17.2-debian-11-r51
metrics.jmx.image.digest JMX exporter image digest in the way sha256:aa.... Please note this parameter, if set, will override the tag ""
metrics.jmx.image.pullPolicy JMX exporter image pull policy IfNotPresent
metrics.jmx.image.pullSecrets Specify docker-registry secret names as an array []
metrics.jmx.containerSecurityContext.enabled Enable Prometheus JMX exporter containers' Security Context true
metrics.jmx.containerSecurityContext.runAsUser Set Prometheus JMX exporter containers' Security Context runAsUser 1001
metrics.jmx.containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot Set Prometheus JMX exporter containers' Security Context runAsNonRoot true
metrics.jmx.containerPorts.metrics Prometheus JMX exporter metrics container port 5556
metrics.jmx.resources.limits The resources limits for the JMX exporter container {}
metrics.jmx.resources.requests The requested resources for the JMX exporter container {}
metrics.jmx.service.ports.metrics Prometheus JMX exporter metrics service port 5556
metrics.jmx.service.clusterIP Static clusterIP or None for headless services ""
metrics.jmx.service.sessionAffinity Control where client requests go, to the same pod or round-robin None
metrics.jmx.service.annotations Annotations for the Prometheus JMX exporter service {}
metrics.jmx.whitelistObjectNames Allows setting which JMX objects you want to expose to via JMX stats to JMX exporter ["kafka.controller:*","kafka.server:*","java.lang:*","kafka.network:*","kafka.log:*"]
metrics.jmx.config Configuration file for JMX exporter ""
metrics.jmx.existingConfigmap Name of existing ConfigMap with JMX exporter configuration ""
metrics.jmx.extraRules Add extra rules to JMX exporter configuration ""
metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled if true, creates a Prometheus Operator ServiceMonitor (requires metrics.kafka.enabled or metrics.jmx.enabled to be true) false
metrics.serviceMonitor.namespace Namespace in which Prometheus is running ""
metrics.serviceMonitor.interval Interval at which metrics should be scraped ""
metrics.serviceMonitor.scrapeTimeout Timeout after which the scrape is ended ""
metrics.serviceMonitor.labels Additional labels that can be used so ServiceMonitor will be discovered by Prometheus {}
metrics.serviceMonitor.selector Prometheus instance selector labels {}
metrics.serviceMonitor.relabelings RelabelConfigs to apply to samples before scraping []
metrics.serviceMonitor.metricRelabelings MetricRelabelConfigs to apply to samples before ingestion []
metrics.serviceMonitor.honorLabels Specify honorLabels parameter to add the scrape endpoint false
metrics.serviceMonitor.jobLabel The name of the label on the target service to use as the job name in prometheus. ""
metrics.prometheusRule.enabled if true, creates a Prometheus Operator PrometheusRule (requires metrics.kafka.enabled or metrics.jmx.enabled to be true) false
metrics.prometheusRule.namespace Namespace in which Prometheus is running ""
metrics.prometheusRule.labels Additional labels that can be used so PrometheusRule will be discovered by Prometheus {}
metrics.prometheusRule.groups Prometheus Rule Groups for Kafka []

Kafka provisioning parameters

Name Description Value
provisioning.enabled Enable kafka provisioning Job false
provisioning.numPartitions Default number of partitions for topics when unspecified 1
provisioning.replicationFactor Default replication factor for topics when unspecified 1
provisioning.topics Kafka topics to provision []
provisioning.nodeSelector Node labels for pod assignment {}
provisioning.tolerations Tolerations for pod assignment []
provisioning.extraProvisioningCommands Extra commands to run to provision cluster resources []
provisioning.parallel Number of provisioning commands to run at the same time 1
provisioning.preScript Extra bash script to run before topic provisioning. $CLIENT_CONF is path to properties file with most needed configurations ""
provisioning.postScript Extra bash script to run after topic provisioning. $CLIENT_CONF is path to properties file with most needed configurations ""
provisioning.auth.tls.type Format to use for TLS certificates. Allowed types: jks and pem. jks
provisioning.auth.tls.certificatesSecret Existing secret containing the TLS certificates for the Kafka provisioning Job. ""
provisioning.auth.tls.cert The secret key from the certificatesSecret if 'cert' key different from the default (tls.crt) tls.crt
provisioning.auth.tls.key The secret key from the certificatesSecret if 'key' key different from the default (tls.key) tls.key
provisioning.auth.tls.caCert The secret key from the certificatesSecret if 'caCert' key different from the default (ca.crt) ca.crt
provisioning.auth.tls.keystore The secret key from the certificatesSecret if 'keystore' key different from the default (keystore.jks) keystore.jks
provisioning.auth.tls.truststore The secret key from the certificatesSecret if 'truststore' key different from the default (truststore.jks) truststore.jks
provisioning.auth.tls.passwordsSecret Name of the secret containing passwords to access the JKS files or PEM key when they are password-protected. ""
provisioning.auth.tls.keyPasswordSecretKey The secret key from the passwordsSecret if 'keyPasswordSecretKey' key different from the default (key-password) key-password
provisioning.auth.tls.keystorePasswordSecretKey The secret key from the passwordsSecret if 'keystorePasswordSecretKey' key different from the default (keystore-password) keystore-password
provisioning.auth.tls.truststorePasswordSecretKey The secret key from the passwordsSecret if 'truststorePasswordSecretKey' key different from the default (truststore-password) truststore-password
provisioning.auth.tls.keyPassword Password to access the password-protected PEM key if necessary. Ignored if 'passwordsSecret' is provided. ""
provisioning.auth.tls.keystorePassword Password to access the JKS keystore. Ignored if 'passwordsSecret' is provided. ""
provisioning.auth.tls.truststorePassword Password to access the JKS truststore. Ignored if 'passwordsSecret' is provided. ""
provisioning.command Override provisioning container command []
provisioning.args Override provisioning container arguments []
provisioning.extraEnvVars Extra environment variables to add to the provisioning pod []
provisioning.extraEnvVarsCM ConfigMap with extra environment variables ""
provisioning.extraEnvVarsSecret Secret with extra environment variables ""
provisioning.podAnnotations Extra annotations for Kafka provisioning pods {}
provisioning.podLabels Extra labels for Kafka provisioning pods {}
provisioning.serviceAccount.create Enable creation of ServiceAccount for Kafka provisioning pods false
provisioning.serviceAccount.name The name of the service account to use. If not set and create is true, a name is generated ""
provisioning.serviceAccount.automountServiceAccountToken Allows auto mount of ServiceAccountToken on the serviceAccount created true
provisioning.resources.limits The resources limits for the Kafka provisioning container {}
provisioning.resources.requests The requested resources for the Kafka provisioning container {}
provisioning.podSecurityContext.enabled Enable security context for the pods true
provisioning.podSecurityContext.fsGroup Set Kafka provisioning pod's Security Context fsGroup 1001
provisioning.containerSecurityContext.enabled Enable Kafka provisioning containers' Security Context true
provisioning.containerSecurityContext.runAsUser Set Kafka provisioning containers' Security Context runAsUser 1001
provisioning.containerSecurityContext.runAsNonRoot Set Kafka provisioning containers' Security Context runAsNonRoot true
provisioning.schedulerName Name of the k8s scheduler (other than default) for kafka provisioning ""
provisioning.extraVolumes Optionally specify extra list of additional volumes for the Kafka provisioning pod(s) []
provisioning.extraVolumeMounts Optionally specify extra list of additional volumeMounts for the Kafka provisioning container(s) []
provisioning.sidecars Add additional sidecar containers to the Kafka provisioning pod(s) []
provisioning.initContainers Add additional Add init containers to the Kafka provisioning pod(s) []
provisioning.waitForKafka If true use an init container to wait until kafka is ready before starting provisioning true

ZooKeeper chart parameters

Name Description Value
zookeeper.enabled Switch to enable or disable the ZooKeeper helm chart true
zookeeper.replicaCount Number of ZooKeeper nodes 1
zookeeper.auth.client.enabled Enable ZooKeeper auth false
zookeeper.auth.client.clientUser User that will use ZooKeeper clients to auth ""
zookeeper.auth.client.clientPassword Password that will use ZooKeeper clients to auth ""
zookeeper.auth.client.serverUsers Comma, semicolon or whitespace separated list of user to be created. Specify them as a string, for example: "user1,user2,admin" ""
zookeeper.auth.client.serverPasswords Comma, semicolon or whitespace separated list of passwords to assign to users when created. Specify them as a string, for example: "pass4user1, pass4user2, pass4admin" ""
zookeeper.persistence.enabled Enable persistence on ZooKeeper using PVC(s) true
zookeeper.persistence.storageClass Persistent Volume storage class ""
zookeeper.persistence.accessModes Persistent Volume access modes ["ReadWriteOnce"]
zookeeper.persistence.size Persistent Volume size 8Gi
externalZookeeper.servers List of external zookeeper servers to use. Typically used in combination with 'zookeeperChrootPath'. []

Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,

helm install my-release \
  --set replicaCount=3 \
  my-repo/kafka

The above command deploys Kafka with 3 brokers (replicas).

Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,

helm install my-release -f values.yaml my-repo/kafka

Tip: You can use the default values.yaml

Configuration and installation details

Rolling VS Immutable tags

It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.

Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.

Setting custom parameters

Any environment variable beginning with KAFKA_CFG_ will be mapped to its corresponding Kafka key. For example, use KAFKA_CFG_BACKGROUND_THREADS in order to set background.threads. In order to pass custom environment variables use the extraEnvVars property.

Using extraEnvVars with KAFKA_CFG_ is the preferred and simplest way to add custom Kafka parameters not otherwise specified in this chart. Alternatively, you can provide a full Kafka configuration using config or existingConfigmap. Setting either config or existingConfigmap will cause the chart to disregard KAFKA_CFG_ settings, which are used by many other Kafka-related chart values described above, as well as dynamically generated parameters such as zookeeper.connect. This can cause unexpected behavior.

Listeners configuration

This chart allows you to automatically configure Kafka with 3 listeners:

  • One for inter-broker communications.
  • A second one for communications with clients within the K8s cluster.
  • (optional) a third listener for communications with clients outside the K8s cluster. Check this section for more information.

For more complex configurations, set the listeners, advertisedListeners and listenerSecurityProtocolMap parameters as needed.

Enable security for Kafka and Zookeeper

You can configure different authentication protocols for each listener you configure in Kafka. For instance, you can use sasl_tls authentication for client communications, while using tls for inter-broker communications. This table shows the available protocols and the security they provide:

Method Authentication Encryption via TLS
plaintext None No
tls None Yes
mtls Yes (two-way authentication) Yes
sasl Yes (via SASL) No
sasl_tls Yes (via SASL) Yes

Learn more about how to configure Kafka to use the different authentication protocols in the chart documentation.

If you enabled SASL authentication on any listener, you can set the SASL credentials using the parameters below:

  • auth.sasl.jaas.clientUsers/auth.sasl.jaas.clientPasswords: when enabling SASL authentication for communications with clients.
  • auth.sasl.jaas.interBrokerUser/auth.sasl.jaas.interBrokerPassword: when enabling SASL authentication for inter-broker communications.
  • auth.jaas.zookeeperUser/auth.jaas.zookeeperPassword: In the case that the Zookeeper chart is deployed with SASL authentication enabled.

In order to configure TLS authentication/encryption, you can create a secret per Kafka broker you have in the cluster containing the Java Key Stores (JKS) files: the truststore (kafka.truststore.jks) and the keystore (kafka.keystore.jks). Then, you need pass the secret names with the auth.tls.existingSecrets parameter when deploying the chart.

Note: If the JKS files are password protected (recommended), you will need to provide the password to get access to the keystores. To do so, use the auth.tls.password parameter to provide your password.

For instance, to configure TLS authentication on a Kafka cluster with 2 Kafka brokers use the commands below to create the secrets:

kubectl create secret generic kafka-jks-0 --from-file=kafka.truststore.jks=./kafka.truststore.jks --from-file=kafka.keystore.jks=./kafka-0.keystore.jks
kubectl create secret generic kafka-jks-1 --from-file=kafka.truststore.jks=./kafka.truststore.jks --from-file=kafka.keystore.jks=./kafka-1.keystore.jks

Note: the command above assumes you already created the truststore and keystores files. This script can help you with the JKS files generation.

If, for some reason (like using Cert-Manager) you can not use the default JKS secret scheme, you can use the additional parameters:

  • auth.tls.jksTruststoreSecret to define additional secret, where the kafka.truststore.jks is being kept. The truststore password must be the same as in auth.tls.password
  • auth.tls.jksTruststore to overwrite the default value of the truststore key (kafka.truststore.jks).
  • auth.tls.jksKeystoreSAN if you want to use a SAN certificate for your brokers. Setting this parameter would mean that the chart expects a existing key in the auth.tls.jksTruststoreSecret with the auth.tls.jksKeystoreSAN value and use this as a keystore for all brokers

Note: If you are using cert-manager, particularly when an ACME issuer is used, the ca.crt field is not put in the Secret that cert-manager creates. To handle this, the auth.tls.pemChainIncluded property can be set to true and the initContainer created by this Chart will attempt to extract the intermediate certs from the tls.crt field of the secret (which is a PEM chain) Note: The truststore/keystore from above must be protected with the same password as in auth.tls.password

You can deploy the chart with authentication using the following parameters:

replicaCount=2
auth.clientProtocol=sasl
auth.interBrokerProtocol=tls
auth.tls.existingSecrets[0]=kafka-jks-0
auth.tls.existingSecrets[1]=kafka-jks-1
auth.tls.password=jksPassword
auth.sasl.jaas.clientUsers[0]=brokerUser
auth.sasl.jaas.clientPasswords[0]=brokerPassword
auth.sasl.jaas.zookeeperUser=zookeeperUser
auth.sasl.jaas.zookeeperPassword=zookeeperPassword
zookeeper.auth.enabled=true
zookeeper.auth.serverUsers=zookeeperUser
zookeeper.auth.serverPasswords=zookeeperPassword
zookeeper.auth.clientUser=zookeeperUser
zookeeper.auth.clientPassword=zookeeperPassword

You can deploy the chart with AclAuthorizer using the following parameters:

replicaCount=2
auth.clientProtocol=sasl
auth.interBrokerProtocol=sasl_tls
auth.tls.existingSecrets[0]=kafka-jks-0
auth.tls.existingSecrets[1]=kafka-jks-1
auth.tls.password=jksPassword
auth.sasl.jaas.clientUsers[0]=brokerUser
auth.sasl.jaas.clientPasswords[0]=brokerPassword
auth.sasl.jaas.zookeeperUser=zookeeperUser
auth.sasl.jaas.zookeeperPassword=zookeeperPassword
zookeeper.auth.enabled=true
zookeeper.auth.serverUsers=zookeeperUser
zookeeper.auth.serverPasswords=zookeeperPassword
zookeeper.auth.clientUser=zookeeperUser
zookeeper.auth.clientPassword=zookeeperPassword
authorizerClassName=kafka.security.authorizer.AclAuthorizer
allowEveryoneIfNoAclFound=false
superUsers=User:admin

If you are using Kafka ACLs, you might encounter in kafka-authorizer.log the following event: [...] Principal = User:ANONYMOUS is Allowed Operation [...].

By setting the following parameter: auth.clientProtocol=mtls, it will set the configuration in Kafka to ssl.client.auth=required. This option will require the clients to authenticate to Kafka brokers.

As result, we will be able to see in kafka-authorizer.log the events specific Subject: [...] Principal = User:CN=kafka,OU=...,O=...,L=...,C=..,ST=... is [...].

If you also enable exposing metrics using the Kafka exporter, and you are using sasl_tls, tls, or mtls authentication protocols, you need to mount the CA certificated used to sign the brokers certificates in the exporter so it can validate the Kafka brokers. To do so, create a secret containing the CA, and set the metrics.certificatesSecret parameter. As an alternative, you can skip TLS validation using extra flags:

metrics.kafka.extraFlags={tls.insecure-skip-tls-verify: ""}

Accessing Kafka brokers from outside the cluster

In order to access Kafka Brokers from outside the cluster, an additional listener and advertised listener must be configured. Additionally, a specific service per kafka pod will be created.

There are three ways of configuring external access. Using LoadBalancer services, using NodePort services or using ClusterIP services.

Using LoadBalancer services

You have two alternatives to use LoadBalancer services:

  • Option A) Use random load balancer IPs using an initContainer that waits for the IPs to be ready and discover them automatically.

    externalAccess.enabled=true
    externalAccess.service.type=LoadBalancer
    externalAccess.service.ports.external=9094
    externalAccess.autoDiscovery.enabled=true
    serviceAccount.create=true
    rbac.create=true
    

Note: This option requires creating RBAC rules on clusters where RBAC policies are enabled.

  • Option B) Manually specify the load balancer IPs:

    externalAccess.enabled=true
    externalAccess.service.type=LoadBalancer
    externalAccess.service.ports.external=9094
    externalAccess.service.loadBalancerIPs[0]='external-ip-1'
    externalAccess.service.loadBalancerIPs[1]='external-ip-2'}
    

Note: You need to know in advance the load balancer IPs so each Kafka broker advertised listener is configured with it.

Following the aforementioned steps will also allow to connect the brokers from the outside using the cluster's default service (when service.type is LoadBalancer or NodePort). Use the property service.externalPort to specify the port used for external connections.

Using NodePort services

You have two alternatives to use NodePort services:

  • Option A) Use random node ports using an initContainer that discover them automatically.

    externalAccess.enabled=true
    externalAccess.service.type=NodePort
    externalAccess.autoDiscovery.enabled=true
    serviceAccount.create=true
    rbac.create=true
    

Note: This option requires creating RBAC rules on clusters where RBAC policies are enabled.

  • Option B) Manually specify the node ports:

    externalAccess.enabled=true
    externalAccess.service.type=NodePort
    externalAccess.service.nodePorts[0]='node-port-1'
    externalAccess.service.nodePorts[1]='node-port-2'
    

Note: You need to know in advance the node ports that will be exposed so each Kafka broker advertised listener is configured with it.

The pod will try to get the external ip of the node using curl -s https://ipinfo.io/ip unless externalAccess.service.domain or externalAccess.service.useHostIPs is provided.

Using ClusterIP services

Note: This option requires that an ingress is deployed within your cluster

externalAccess.enabled=true
externalAccess.service.type=ClusterIP
externalAccess.service.ports.external=9094
externalAccess.service.domain='ingress-ip'

Note: the deployed ingress must contain the following block:

tcp:
  9094: "{{ .Release.Namespace }}/{{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-0-external:9094"
  9095: "{{ .Release.Namespace }}/{{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-1-external:9094"
  9096: "{{ .Release.Namespace }}/{{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-2-external:9094"

Name resolution with External-DNS

You can use the following values to generate External-DNS annotations which automatically creates DNS records for each ReplicaSet pod:

externalAccess:
  service:
    annotations:
      external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname: "{{ .targetPod }}.example.com"

Sidecars

If you have a need for additional containers to run within the same pod as Kafka (e.g. an additional metrics or logging exporter), you can do so via the sidecars config parameter. Simply define your container according to the Kubernetes container spec.

sidecars:
  - name: your-image-name
    image: your-image
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    ports:
      - name: portname
       containerPort: 1234

Setting Pod's affinity

This chart allows you to set your custom affinity using the affinity parameter. Find more information about Pod's affinity in the kubernetes documentation.

As an alternative, you can use of the preset configurations for pod affinity, pod anti-affinity, and node affinity available at the bitnami/common chart. To do so, set the podAffinityPreset, podAntiAffinityPreset, or nodeAffinityPreset parameters.

Deploying extra resources

There are cases where you may want to deploy extra objects, such as Kafka Connect. For covering this case, the chart allows adding the full specification of other objects using the extraDeploy parameter. The following example would create a deployment including a Kafka Connect deployment so you can connect Kafka with MongoDB®:

## Extra objects to deploy (value evaluated as a template)
##
extraDeploy:
  - |
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    metadata:
      name: {{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-connect
      labels: {{- include "common.labels.standard" . | nindent 4 }}
        app.kubernetes.io/component: connector
    spec:
      replicas: 1
      selector:
        matchLabels: {{- include "common.labels.matchLabels" . | nindent 6 }}
          app.kubernetes.io/component: connector
      template:
        metadata:
          labels: {{- include "common.labels.standard" . | nindent 8 }}
            app.kubernetes.io/component: connector
        spec:
          containers:
            - name: connect
              image: KAFKA-CONNECT-IMAGE
              imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
              ports:
                - name: connector
                  containerPort: 8083
              volumeMounts:
                - name: configuration
                  mountPath: /bitnami/kafka/config
          volumes:
            - name: configuration
              configMap:
                name: {{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-connect
  - |
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
      name: {{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-connect
      labels: {{- include "common.labels.standard" . | nindent 4 }}
        app.kubernetes.io/component: connector
    data:
      connect-standalone.properties: |-
        bootstrap.servers = {{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-0.{{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-headless.{{ .Release.Namespace }}.svc.{{ .Values.clusterDomain }}:{{ .Values.service.port }}
        ...
      mongodb.properties: |-
        connection.uri=mongodb://root:password@mongodb-hostname:27017
        ...
  - |
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Service
    metadata:
      name: {{ include "kafka.fullname" . }}-connect
      labels: {{- include "common.labels.standard" . | nindent 4 }}
        app.kubernetes.io/component: connector
    spec:
      ports:
        - protocol: TCP
          port: 8083
          targetPort: connector
      selector: {{- include "common.labels.matchLabels" . | nindent 4 }}
        app.kubernetes.io/component: connector

You can create the Kafka Connect image using the Dockerfile below:

FROM bitnami/kafka:latest
# Download MongoDB® Connector for Apache Kafka https://www.confluent.io/hub/mongodb/kafka-connect-mongodb
RUN mkdir -p /opt/bitnami/kafka/plugins && \
    cd /opt/bitnami/kafka/plugins && \
    curl --remote-name --location --silent https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/mongodb/kafka/mongo-kafka-connect/1.2.0/mongo-kafka-connect-1.2.0-all.jar
CMD /opt/bitnami/kafka/bin/connect-standalone.sh /opt/bitnami/kafka/config/connect-standalone.properties /opt/bitnami/kafka/config/mongo.properties

Persistence

The Bitnami Kafka image stores the Kafka data at the /bitnami/kafka path of the container.

Persistent Volume Claims are used to keep the data across deployments. This is known to work in GCE, AWS, and minikube. See the Parameters section to configure the PVC or to disable persistence.

Adjust permissions of persistent volume mountpoint

As the image run as non-root by default, it is necessary to adjust the ownership of the persistent volume so that the container can write data into it.

By default, the chart is configured to use Kubernetes Security Context to automatically change the ownership of the volume. However, this feature does not work in all Kubernetes distributions. As an alternative, this chart supports using an initContainer to change the ownership of the volume before mounting it in the final destination.

You can enable this initContainer by setting volumePermissions.enabled to true.

Troubleshooting

Find more information about how to deal with common errors related to Bitnami's Helm charts in this troubleshooting guide.

Upgrading

To 20.0.0

This major updates the Zookeeper subchart to it newest major, 11.0.0. For more information on this subchart's major, please refer to zookeeper upgrade notes.

To 19.0.0

This major updates Kafka to its newest version, 3.3.x. For more information, please refer to kafka upgrade notes.

To 18.0.0

This major updates the Zookeeper subchart to it newest major, 10.0.0. For more information on this subchart's major, please refer to zookeeper upgrade notes.

To 16.0.0

This major updates the Zookeeper subchart to it newest major, 9.0.0. For more information on this subchart's major, please refer to zookeeper upgrade notes.

To 15.0.0

This major release bumps Kafka major version to 3.x series. It also renames several values in this chart and adds missing features, in order to be inline with the rest of assets in the Bitnami charts repository. Some affected values are:

  • service.port, service.internalPort and service.externalPort have been regrouped under the service.ports map.
  • metrics.kafka.service.port has been regrouped under the metrics.kafka.service.ports map.
  • metrics.jmx.service.port has been regrouped under the metrics.jmx.service.ports map.
  • updateStrategy (string) and rollingUpdatePartition are regrouped under the updateStrategy map.
  • Several parameters marked as deprecated 14.x.x are not supported anymore.

Additionally updates the ZooKeeper subchart to it newest major, 8.0.0, which contains similar changes.

To 14.0.0

In this version, the image block is defined once and is used in the different templates, while in the previous version, the image block was duplicated for the main container and the provisioning one

image:
  registry: docker.io
  repository: bitnami/kafka
  tag: 2.8.0

VS

image:
  registry: docker.io
  repository: bitnami/kafka
  tag: 2.8.0
...
provisioning:
  image:
    registry: docker.io
    repository: bitnami/kafka
    tag: 2.8.0

See PR#7114 for more info about the implemented changes

To 13.0.0

This major updates the Zookeeper subchart to it newest major, 7.0.0, which renames all TLS-related settings. For more information on this subchart's major, please refer to zookeeper upgrade notes.

To 12.2.0

This version also introduces bitnami/common, a library chart as a dependency. More documentation about this new utility could be found here. Please, make sure that you have updated the chart dependencies before executing any upgrade.

To 12.0.0

On November 13, 2020, Helm v2 support was formally finished, this major version is the result of the required changes applied to the Helm Chart to be able to incorporate the different features added in Helm v3 and to be consistent with the Helm project itself regarding the Helm v2 EOL.

What changes were introduced in this major version?

  • Previous versions of this Helm Chart use apiVersion: v1 (installable by both Helm 2 and 3), this Helm Chart was updated to apiVersion: v2 (installable by Helm 3 only). Here you can find more information about the apiVersion field.
  • Move dependency information from the requirements.yaml to the Chart.yaml
  • After running helm dependency update, a Chart.lock file is generated containing the same structure used in the previous requirements.lock
  • The different fields present in the Chart.yaml file has been ordered alphabetically in a homogeneous way for all the Bitnami Helm Charts

Considerations when upgrading to this version

  • If you want to upgrade to this version from a previous one installed with Helm v3, you shouldn't face any issues
  • If you want to upgrade to this version using Helm v2, this scenario is not supported as this version doesn't support Helm v2 anymore
  • If you installed the previous version with Helm v2 and wants to upgrade to this version with Helm v3, please refer to the official Helm documentation about migrating from Helm v2 to v3

Useful links

To 11.8.0

External access to brokers can now be achieved through the cluster's Kafka service.

  • service.nodePort -> deprecated in favor of service.nodePorts.client and service.nodePorts.external

To 11.7.0

The way to configure the users and passwords changed. Now it is allowed to create multiple users during the installation by providing the list of users and passwords.

  • auth.jaas.clientUser (string) -> deprecated in favor of auth.jaas.clientUsers (array).
  • auth.jaas.clientPassword (string) -> deprecated in favor of auth.jaas.clientPasswords (array).

To 11.0.0

The way to configure listeners and athentication on Kafka is totally refactored allowing users to configure different authentication protocols on different listeners. Please check the Listeners Configuration section for more information.

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed you adapt your values.yaml to the new format. Here you can find some parameters that were renamed or disappeared in favor of new ones on this major version:

  • auth.enabled -> deprecated in favor of auth.clientProtocol and auth.interBrokerProtocol parameters.
  • auth.ssl -> deprecated in favor of auth.clientProtocol and auth.interBrokerProtocol parameters.
  • auth.certificatesSecret -> renamed to auth.jksSecret.
  • auth.certificatesPassword -> renamed to auth.jksPassword.
  • sslEndpointIdentificationAlgorithm -> renamedo to auth.tlsEndpointIdentificationAlgorithm.
  • auth.interBrokerUser -> renamed to auth.jaas.interBrokerUser
  • auth.interBrokerPassword -> renamed to auth.jaas.interBrokerPassword
  • auth.zookeeperUser -> renamed to auth.jaas.zookeeperUser
  • auth.zookeeperPassword -> renamed to auth.jaas.zookeeperPassword
  • auth.existingSecret -> renamed to auth.jaas.existingSecret
  • service.sslPort -> deprecated in favor of service.internalPort
  • service.nodePorts.kafka and service.nodePorts.ssl -> deprecated in favor of service.nodePort
  • metrics.kafka.extraFlag -> new parameter
  • metrics.kafka.certificatesSecret -> new parameter

To 10.0.0

If you are setting the config or log4j parameter, backwards compatibility is not guaranteed, because the KAFKA_MOUNTED_CONFDIR has moved from /opt/bitnami/kafka/conf to /bitnami/kafka/config. In order to continue using these parameters, you must also upgrade your image to docker.io/bitnami/kafka:2.4.1-debian-10-r38 or later.

To 9.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed you adapt your values.yaml to the new format. Here you can find some parameters that were renamed on this major version:

- securityContext.enabled
- securityContext.fsGroup
- securityContext.fsGroup
+ podSecurityContext
- externalAccess.service.loadBalancerIP
+ externalAccess.service.loadBalancerIPs
- externalAccess.service.nodePort
+ externalAccess.service.nodePorts
- metrics.jmx.configMap.enabled
- metrics.jmx.configMap.overrideConfig
+ metrics.jmx.config
- metrics.jmx.configMap.overrideName
+ metrics.jmx.existingConfigmap

Ports names were prefixed with the protocol to comply with Istio (see https://istio.io/docs/ops/deployment/requirements/).

To 8.0.0

There is not backwards compatibility since the brokerID changes to the POD_NAME. For more information see this PR.

To 7.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed when Kafka metrics are enabled, unless you modify the labels used on the exporter deployments. Use the workaround below to upgrade from versions previous to 7.0.0. The following example assumes that the release name is kafka:

helm upgrade kafka my-repo/kafka --version 6.1.8 --set metrics.kafka.enabled=false
helm upgrade kafka my-repo/kafka --version 7.0.0 --set metrics.kafka.enabled=true

To 2.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed unless you modify the labels used on the chart's deployments. Use the workaround below to upgrade from versions previous to 2.0.0. The following example assumes that the release name is kafka:

kubectl delete statefulset kafka-kafka --cascade=false
kubectl delete statefulset kafka-zookeeper --cascade=false

To 1.0.0

Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed unless you modify the labels used on the chart's deployments. Use the workaround below to upgrade from versions previous to 1.0.0. The following example assumes that the release name is kafka:

kubectl delete statefulset kafka-kafka --cascade=false
kubectl delete statefulset kafka-zookeeper --cascade=false

License

Copyright © 2023 Bitnami

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