Confluent Kafka Single Node Image 8.0.2
Amazon-Linux 2023

Features (Default) at a glance 

Available as single node only on AWS Marketplace (Confluent License Restrictions)

• Confluent Kafka Node
  
  • KRaft Controller, Kafka Broker, Kafka Connect, Schema-Registry, Kafka-Rest, KSQL & ControlcenterNextgen systemd processes
    • KSQL Requires two nodes
  • Connector-plugins Installed - providing integration via connectors
  • Mandatory mTLS and Kafka Access Control Lists for connecting to Kafka
  • Certificate & Kafka-ACL scripts for easy application onboarding or for mTLS 
    • Certificates provided for KRaft Controller+Kafka-Broker, Kafka-Connect, Schema-Registry, Kafka-Restand ControlcenterNextgen
    • ACLs created for KRaft Controller+Kafka-Broker, Kafka-Connect, Schema-Registry, Kafka-Rest, KSQL
    • ACL script provided
• Easily integrate with organization's Observability stack 
  • JMX and Jolokia Enabled Metrics Collection for Kafka-Components
  • OS Metrics via Node-Exporter
  • Controlcenter Nextgen aldos provided Prometheus & Alertmanager
• Secure Client Access - mandatory mTLS+Kafka ACLs
  • Java-Clients, curl and Non-Java Clients - integrate via Kafka-streams
  • Use the installed connector-plugins or easily add new plugins
  • No development costs + Register for deployment assistance
  • No maintenance overhead
  • Expert Support available - Apache-Kafka, Confluent 

Confluent Ports

The following are the Confluent Kafka Component Ports. Use this as a guide when creating the security groups (for applications access), NACLs etc.

Observability Ports

The following are the Observability Ports. Use this as a guide when creating the security groups (for observability access), NACLs etc.

Metrics Ports

Use this to integrate with the Observability framework in your organization. Optionally we provide an Observability image for Kafka

Prerequisites

• Networking will need to be defined
  • Vnet
  • Private Subnets
  • Kafka Security Group
  • Secure SSH Connectvitiy
• DNS - will need to be defined post deploy

Deployment

• From the AWS Console,  select the ami and click Launch instance from AMI
  • AWS Console -> EC2 -> Images -> AMIs
• Provide a Name for the instance
  • You can use the hostname.domain format or e.g., cfkr04.cyllix.ami
• For Instance type, select t4g.2xlarge (Minimum t4g.xlarge)
• Provide a Key pair
  • You can select from the list or create one (don't forget to download this if creating)
• Create a security group with all the following (Recommend creating separate groups)
  • Confluent ports (Confluent ports section)
  • Observability ports (Observability ports section)
  • Metric ports (Metrics ports section)
• Configure storage as required
• Expand Advanced details (Mandatory) - In User data (Replace puthostname.domain with your preferred hostname.domain)

• Click on  Launch instance (You will find this on the bottom right)

Support

For CYLLiX Support and Inquiries, please contact us at https://www.cyllix.io/customer-portal

For Confluent Support and Inquiries please see https://www.confluent.io