Our solution to run Apache Kafka on Kubernetes comes in three flavours:

  • The Koperator is an open source project that delivers the basic functionality of our solution.
  • Supertubes Core adds commercial support and optionally integration support to the Koperator .
  • Supertubes Pro is a commercial product that includes all the features mentioned in this guide, commercial support, and optionally integration support.
Open Source Supertubes Core Supertubes Pro
Managed components Koperator Koperator Koperator , Banzai Cloud Istio operator, Zookeeper, MirrorMaker 2.0
Support Community Professional Enterprise
Scaling ✓ ✓ ✓
Re-balancing ✓ ✓ ✓
Alert based self healing ✓ ✓ ✓
Monitoring Basic Basic charts and metrics Advanced protocol-level charts and metrics
SSL performance Default Default High
Security out-of-the-box ✓
Disaster recovery ✓
Supertubes operator (declarative CLI) ✓
ACL handling: Client authorization through client cert (SSL) when running inside Istio mesh ✓
Declaratively handle Kafka ACLs ✓
Support volume expansion ✓
Manage Schema Registry instances and register schemas declaratively ✓
Observability dashboard (UI) ✓
Kafka Connect and connector support ✓
ksqlDB support ✓

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Open Source Supertubes Core Supertubes Pro
ACL handling through envoy protocol filter: RBAC integration ✓
Rolling upgrade between incompatible versions ✓
Audit (based on Envoy protocol) ✓

Application framework:

  • Connect
  • Producer/consumer
  • Streaming
 ✓
Rollback from rolling upgrade failure ✓
Cruise control configuration fine tuning ✓
Allow users to use CC proposals ✓
Client throttling: request/sec ✓
Management dashboard (UI) ✓
Broker recycling ✓