| Channel | Revision | Published | Runs on |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/stable | 205 | 28 May 2025 | |
| 3/candidate | 205 | 11 Apr 2025 | |
| 3/beta | 205 | 03 Apr 2025 | |
| 3/edge | 230 | 28 Aug 2025 | |
| 4/edge | 237 | 24 Sep 2025 |
juju deploy kafka --channel 3/edge
Deploy universal operators easily with Juju, the Universal Operator Lifecycle Manager.
Platform:
Charmed Apache Kafka
This is an open-source software operator (charm) that simplifies the deployment and management of Apache Kafka on traditional machine environments in a platform-agnostic way. Whether you’re on public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or private infrastructure (OpenStack, VMWare), this charm provides a consistent and reliable way to deploy and run an Apache Kafka cluster.
This is a IAAS/VM operator. To deploy on Kubernetes, see Charmed Apache Kafka K8s operator.
Apache Kafka is a free, open-source software project by the Apache Software Foundation.
The charm helps ops teams and administrators automate Apache Kafka operations from Day 0 to Day 2 with additional capabilities, such as: replication, TLS encryption, password rotation, easy-to-use application integration, and monitoring.
Getting started
Deploying and using the Charmed Apache Kafka is simple and straightforward with Juju. For example, to deploy three nodes of Charmed Apache Kafka with five nodes of Charmed Apache ZooKeeper:
juju deploy kafka -n 3
juju deploy zookeeper -n 5
juju integrate kafka zookeeper
For more information, see our tutorial and how-to guides:
Full documentation
For additional guidance, see our full Charmed Apache Kafka documentation at https://documentation.ubuntu.com/charmed-kafka/.
Project and community
Charmed Apache Kafka is a distribution of Apache Kafka. It’s an open-source project that welcomes community contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.
- Read our Code of Conduct
- Join the Discourse forum
- Contribute and report issues
- Explore Canonical Data Fabric solutions
- Contact us for all further questions
Apache®, Apache Kafka, Kafka®, and the Apache Kafka logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries.
License
The Charmed Apache Kafka Operator is free software, distributed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.