At Banzai Cloud we are building a cloud agnostic, open source next generation CloudFoundry/Heroku-like PaaS, Pipeline, while running several big data workloads natively on Kubernetes. Apache Kafka is one of the cloud native workloads we support out-of-the-box, alongside Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin. If you’re interested in running big data workloads on Kubernetes, please read the following blog series as well. Apache Kafka on Kubernetes series: Kafka on Kubernetes - using etcd Monitoring Apache Kafka with Prometheus Kafka on Kubernetes with Local Persistent Volumes Kafka on Kubernetes the easy way