Saturday, December 06, 2025

Confluent Kafka Single Node Image 8.0.2 & 8.0.1
Redhat 9.6.x and Ubuntu 24.04

Features (Default) at a glance

Available as single node only on Azure 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.

Component

Port#

Confluent-Service

Purpose

Kafka Broker

9092

confluent-kafka-server.service

Kafka Client Port (mTLS)

KRaft Controller

9093

confluent-kcontroller.service

Controller Port (mTLS)

Kafka Connect

8083

confluent-kafka-connect.service

Connect Port (mTLS)

Schema Registry

8081

confluent-schema-registry.service

Connect Port (mTLS)

Kafka Rest

8082

confluent-kafka-rest.service

Connect Port (mTLS)

KSQL

8088

confluent-ksqldb.service

Connect Port (mTLS)

 

Observability Ports

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

Component

Port#

Service 

Provider

Node Exporter

9100

node_exporter.service

CYLLiX

Prometheus

9090

prometheus.service

Confluent-ControlCenterNextGen

Alertmanager

9098

alertmanager.service

Confluent-ControlCenterNextGen

 

Metrics Ports

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

Component

JMX Port#

Jolokia Port#

Purpose

KRaft Controller

30000

7770

KRaft Controller

KRaft Broker

30010

7771

Broker

Kafka Connect

30020

7772

Connector

Schema-Registry

30030

7773

Schema-Registry

Kafka Rest

30040

7774

Kafka-Rest

KSQL

30050

7775

KSQL

ControlCenter

30060

N/A

ControlCenterNextGen

Prerequisites

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