strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator resource
Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 45.0
- age_days: 3771
- days_rel: 13
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 17
Adoption not part of the score
5916 stars · 1532 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Strimzi is a Kubernetes operator suite for deploying and managing Apache Kafka clusters, including Kafka Connect, MirrorMaker, topics, and users via custom resources. It also ships an HTTP Bridge providing a RESTful interface for producing and consuming Kafka messages.
Use cases
- run apache kafka on kubernetes
- deploy kafka cluster on openshift
- manage kafka topics and users with kubectl
- automate kafka tls certificates and oauth auth
- expose kafka outside kubernetes via load balancer or ingress
- run kafka connect and mirror maker on k8s
- produce and consume kafka messages over http rest
When to choose
- you want declarative, GitOps-friendly Kafka management on Kubernetes or OpenShift
- you need automated certificate management, SCRAM/OAuth auth, and rack-aware HA Kafka
- you want to manage Kafka Connect, MirrorMaker, topics, and users as custom resources
When to avoid
- you run Kafka on bare VMs or outside Kubernetes
- you need a lightweight single-node Kafka for local testing without a cluster
- you cannot grant the operator cluster-level RBAC permissions
Facets
infra-config · maturity stable
container-orchestration message-queue deployment configuration-management streaming microservices cloud self-hosted go jvm kafka-operator kubernetes-operator openshift kafka-connect kafka-streams cncf gitops event-streaming http-bridge messaging devops containers data-engineering kubernetes docker
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator · fetched 2026-08-28 · 755b7f0ad15e
- homepage: https://strimzi.io/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · ce489e141281
- site_page: https://strimzi.io/documentation · fetched 2026-08-29 · 077c00beb673
- site_page: https://strimzi.io/quickstarts · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3f617638aa9e
- site_page: https://strimzi.io/docs/bridge/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · a7bcc6c7d046
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator | main | 95 |
For agents
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