Deploying Confluent Operator and Confluent Platform

The following sections guide you through deploying one cluster containing the following components:

  • Confluent Operator (one instance with one instance of the Confluent Manager service)
  • Apache ZooKeeper™ (three replicas)
  • Apache Kafka® (three broker replicas)
  • Confluent Schema Registry (two replicas)
  • Kafka Connect (two replicas)
  • Confluent Replicator (two replicas)
  • Confluent Control Center (one instance)
  • Confluent KSQL (two replicas)

Unless specified, the deployment procedure shows examples based on the default configuration parameters in the Helm YAML files provided by Confluent. This includes default naming conventions for components and namespaces. Note that you should not use the default YAML parameters for deploying into a production environment. However, using the default parameters allows you quickly get up and running in a test environment.

The procedure uses the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the example provider environment with additional configuration information for OpenShift. This procedure can also be used as a guide for deploying Operator and Confluent Platform in supported provider environments.

Note

You should have experience using Linux and experience configuring Kubernetes or OpenShift before using these instructions. Detailed information about installing and configuring Kubernetes and OpenShift is not provided.

General Prerequisites
  • A Kubernetes cluster conforming to one of the supported environments.
  • Cluster size based on the Sizing Recommendations.
  • The provider CLI or Cloud SDK is installed and initialized.
  • kubectl or OpenShift oc is installed, initialized, with the context set for your running cluster. You also need the kubeconfig file configured for your cluster.
  • Access to the Confluent images on Docker or the Red Hat Container Catalog.
  • Access to the Confluent Helm bundle (Step 1 below).
  • Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) or OpenShift RBAC support enabled for your cluster.
  • Storage: StorageClass-based storage provisioner support. This is the default storage class used. Other external provisioners can be used. SSD or SSD-like disks are required for persistent storage.
  • Security: TLS certificates for each component required (if using TLS). Default SASL/PLAIN security is used in the example steps. See Configuring security for information about how to configure additional security.
  • DNS: DNS support on your platform environment is required for external access to Confluent Platform components after deployment. After deployment, you create DNS entries to enable external access to individual Confluent Platform components. See Configuring external load balancers for additional information. If your organization does not allow external access for development testing, see No-DNS development access.
Provider-Specific Prerequisites
  • Kubernetes Load Balancing:
    • Layer 4 load balancing with passthrough support (terminating at the application) is required for Kafka brokers with external access enabled.
    • Layer 7 load balancing can be used for Operator and all other Confluent Platform components.
  • OpenShift Load Balancing:

Prepare to deploy components

Complete the following steps to prepare for deployment.

Step 1: Download the Helm bundle for Confluent Platform 5.3.1

Confluent offers a bundle of Helm charts, templates, and scripts used to deploy Confluent Operator and Confluent Platform components to your Kubernetes cluster. Note that the bundle is extracted to a directory named helm. You should run helm install commands from within this directory.

Download and extract the following bundle:

https://platform-ops-bin.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/operator/confluent-operator-1.3.1-for-confluent-platform-5.3.1.tar.gz.

Step 3: Install Helm 2 and Tiller

Use the following steps to install Helm 2 and Tiller.

Prerequisites:
  • kubectl or OpenShift oc installed, initialized, with the context set for your running cluster.
  • A kubeconfig file configured for your cluster.

Kubernetes cluster

Complete the following steps to install and configure Helm 2 and Tiller.

Note that a service account is created and RBAC ClusterRoleBinding is used to give Tiller cluster-admin authorization to perform all tasks required to automatically deploy and provision Confluent Operator and Confluent Platform. See User-facing roles for additional information about the cluster-admin role created for this purpose.

Note

The default Tiller installation can be used for development testing. See Helm and Tiller security for more information about securing Helm and Tiller for production environments.

  1. Install Helm using the Helm version 2 installation instructions.

    Important

    The latest 2.9.x version is recommended. Helm 3 is not supported.

  2. Create an RBAC service account.

    kubectl create serviceaccount tiller -n kube-system

  3. Bind the cluster-admin role to the service account.

    kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller \
--clusterrole=cluster-admin \
--serviceaccount kube-system:tiller

  4. Install Tiller with the service account enabled.

    helm init --service-account tiller

OpenShift cluster

Background information and complete instructions for installing Helm and Tiller are provided in an OpenShift blog article. Complete the Getting started with Helm on OpenShift instructions.

Step 3. Modify the provider YAML file

The following steps you through configuration changes necessary for the default provider YAML file. Refer to OpenShift Deployment if you are using the private provider YAML file for OpenShift.

Note

The following are the default YAML configuration changes necessary for initial deployment. You can manually update the YAML configuration after deployment if necessary. See Modifying Component Configurations for details.

Kubernetes deployment

Make the following configuration changes to your provider YAML file.

  1. Go to the helm/providers directory on your local machine.

  2. Open the gcp.yaml file (or other public cloud provider YAML file).

  3. Validate or change your region and zone or zones (if your cluster spans multiple availability zones). The example below uses region: us-central1 and zones: - us-central1-a.

  4. Validate or change your storage provisioner. See Storage Classe Provisioners for configuration examples. The example below uses GCE persistent disk storage (gce-pd) and solid-state drives (pd-ssd).

    global:
  provider:
    name: gcp
    region: us-central1
    kubernetes:
       deployment:
         ## If kubernetes is deployed in multi zone mode then specify availability-zones as appropriate
         ## If kubernetes is deployed in single availability zone then specify appropriate values
         zones:
          - us-central1-a
    storage:
      ## https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-classes/#gce
      ##
      provisioner: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
      reclaimPolicy: Delete
      parameters:
        type: pd-ssd

  5. Enter the image registry endpoint.

    The following example shows the default public image registry endpoint. If you are installing from images downloaded and stored locally or located elsewhere, you need to enter your unique endpoint. If the endpoint you use requires basic authentication, you need to change the credential parameter to required: true and enter a username and password.

    ## Docker registry endpoint where Confluent Images are available.
##
registry:
  fqdn: docker.io
  credential:
    required: false
    username:
    password:

  6. Enable load balancing for external access to the Kafka cluster. The domain name is the domain name you use (or that you create) for your cloud project in the provider environment. See Configuring the network for more information.

    ## Kafka Cluster
##
kafka:
  name: kafka
  replicas: 3
 resources:
   requests:
     cpu: 200m
     memory: 1Gi
  loadBalancer:
     enabled: true
     domain: "<provider-domain>"
  tls:
     enabled: false
     fullchain: |-
     privkey: |-
     cacerts: |-

The deployment example steps use SASL/PLAIN security with TLS disabled. This level of security can typically be used for testing and development purposes. For production environments, see Configuring security for information about how to set up the component YAML files with TLS enabled.

OpenShift deployment

Review and make changes based on the following information prior to beginning an OpenShift deployment.

  1. Go to the helm/providers directory on your local machine.
  2. Open the private.yaml file.

Security Context Constraints

Create a Security Context Constraints (SCC) configuration and UID for the pods and containers. The following lists the options you can use to create the UID.

  1. OpenShift generates a random UID for containers (recommended).
  2. You configure a custom UID.
  3. OpenShift runs containers using default restricted SCC mode.
  4. OpenShift runs containers with a root UID (not recommended).

If you choose to use the recommended random UID option, add the following to the private.yaml configuration:

pod:
 randomUID: true

If you want to use another option, see the comments and instructions located in the downloaded helm bundle at helm/scripts/openshift.

Additional private.yaml file changes

Make the following additional changes to the private.yaml file.

  1. Validate or change your region and zone or zones (if your cluster spans multiple zones). The example below shows a private cloud running in ohio-dc-1. Depending on your environment, this can be whatever you want associated with the name of your OpenShift implementation. Note that a meaningful zone name should entered because it is used as the prefix for the storage-class resources.

  2. Validate or change your storage provisioner. The example shows an entry for using AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage.

    global:
  provider:
    name: private
    region: ohio-dc
    kubernetes:
       deployment:
         ## If kubernetes is deployed in multi zone mode then specify availability-zones as appropriate
         ## If kubernetes is deployed in single availability zone then specify appropriate values
         zones:
          - ohio-dc-1
    storage:
      ##  more information can be found here
      ##  https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-classes/
      provisioner: kubernetes.io/aws-ebs
      reclaimPolicy: Delete
      parameters:
         type: io1
         iopsPerGB: "10"
         fsType: ext4

  3. Enter the image registry endpoint and save the YAML file.

    The following example shows the default public image registry endpoint. If you are installing from images pulled from the Red Hat Container Catalog or downloaded and stored locally, you need to enter a unique endpoint.

    Docker registry credentials are only required if the registry you are pointing to uses basic authentication. If true, you need to change the credential parameter to required: true and enter a username and password. Generally, for OpenShift, all nodes are preconfigured to pull images through TLS mutual authentication and you only need to supply the fqdn.

    ## Docker registry endpoint where Confluent Images are available.
##
registry:
  fqdn: docker.io
  credential:
    required: false
    username:
    password:

  1. Enable load balancing for external access to the Kafka cluster. For OpenShift, you need to add a parameter to the provider YAML file to enable route-based load balancing. The parameter you add is type: route as shown in the example below.

    ## Kafka Cluster
##
kafka:
  name: kafka
  replicas: 3
 resources:
   requests:
     cpu: 200m
     memory: 1Gi
  loadBalancer:
     enabled: true
     type: route
     domain: "<OpenShiftDomain>"
  tls:
     enabled: false
     fullchain: |-
     privkey: |-
     cacerts: |-

Important

For OpenShift route-based load balacing, the Kafka cluster must have TLS enabled (either TLS, SASL_SSL or SSL). SASL/PLAIN security is not supported in OpenShift deployments. See Configuring security for information about how to set up the component YAML files with TLS enabled.

Deploy components

Complete the following steps to deploy Confluent Operator and Confluent Platform. Components must be installed in the order provided in the following steps.

Note

  • Use oc instead of kubectl commands for OpenShift. Otherwise, the commands are identical. For example, instead of kubectl get pods -n operator you use oc get pods -n operator.
  • The steps show the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the provider. Replace gcp.yaml with your provider YAML if not using GCP.

Step 1: Install Confluent Operator

  1. Go to the helm directory on your local machine.

  2. Enter the following command:

    helm install \
-f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
--name operator \
--namespace operator \
--set operator.enabled=true \
./confluent-operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME:   operator
LAST DEPLOYED: Mon May 20 13:31:14 2019
NAMESPACE: operator
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/ClusterRoleBinding
NAME                  AGE
operator-cc-manager   1s
operator-cc-operator  1s

==> v1/Pod(related)
NAME                          READY  STATUS             RESTARTS  AGE
cc-manager-85749c4b5-fsvvm    0/1    ContainerCreating  0         1s
cc-operator-54f54c694d-fpncm  0/1    ContainerCreating  0         1s

==> v1/Secret
NAME                       TYPE                            DATA  AGE
confluent-docker-registry  kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson  1     1s

==> v1/ServiceAccount
NAME         SECRETS  AGE
cc-manager   1        1s
cc-operator  1        1s

==> v1beta1/Deployment
NAME         READY  UP-TO-DATE  AVAILABLE  AGE
cc-manager   0/1    1           0          1s
cc-operator  0/1    1           0          1s

  3. Patch the Service Account so it can pull Confluent Platform images.

    kubectl -n operator patch serviceaccount default -p '{"imagePullSecrets": [{"name": "confluent-docker-registry" }]}'

    If you are using a private or local registry with basic authentication, use the following command:

    kubectl -n operator patch serviceaccount default -p '{"imagePullSecrets": [{"name": "<your registry name here>" }]}'

  4. Complete all additional steps in the displayed installation output under NOTES. The notes provide commands to validate the installation along with other valuable information you need to review and save. To redisplay the notes after installation, see Helm commands.

    Note

    If you are using a different image registry (and basic authentication) you need to change "confluent-docker-registry" to "<your-image-registry>" at Step 1 under NOTES.

    The following is sample output. Note that Confluent Manager is a service installed as part of Confluent Operator.

    NOTES:


                              The Confluent Operator

The Confluent Operator interacts with kubernetes API to create StatefulSets resources

1. Give the `default` Service Account access to pull images from
 "confluent-docker-registry".

kubectl -n operator patch serviceaccount default -p '{"imagePullSecrets":
[{"name": "confluent-docker-registry" }]}'

2. Validate if Confluent Operator is running.

kubectl get pods -n operator

3. Validate if custom resource definition (CRD) is created.

kubectl get crd -n operator


                                  The Confluent Manager

The Confluent Manager brings the component (Confluent Services) specific
 controllers for kubernetes by providing components specific Custom
  Resource Definition (CRD). It runs two controllers Kafka/Zookeeper.

1. Validate if Confluent Manager is running.

kubectl get pods -n operator | grep "manager"

2. Validate if custom resource definition (CRD) is created for Kafka/Zookeeper

kubectl get crd  -n operator

3. Validate if Kafka command is available

kubectl get kafka -n operator

           OR

kubectl get broker  -n operator

4. Validate if Zookeeper command is available

kubectl get zookeeper -n operator

           OR

kubectl get zk -n operator

Note: For Openshift Platform replace kubectl commands with 'oc' commands

Step 2: Install ZooKeeper

  1. Enter the following command to verify that the Operator and Manager services are running:

    kubectl get pods -n operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cc-manager-85749c4b5-fsvvm     1/1     Running   1          25m
cc-operator-54f54c694d-fpncm   1/1     Running   0          25m

  2. Enter the following command:

    helm install \
-f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
--name zookeeper \
--namespace operator \
--set zookeeper.enabled=true \
./confluent-operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME:   zookeeper
LAST DEPLOYED: Mon May 20 14:01:31 2019
NAMESPACE: operator
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/Secret
NAME                TYPE    DATA  AGE
zookeeper-apikeys   Opaque  1     1s
zookeeper-sslcerts  Opaque  0     1s

==> v1/StorageClass
NAME                                  PROVISIONER           AGE
zookeeper-standard-ssd-us-central1-a  kubernetes.io/gce-pd  1s

==> v1alpha1/ZookeeperCluster
NAME       AGE
zookeeper  1s

==> v1beta1/PodDisruptionBudget
NAME       MIN AVAILABLE  MAX UNAVAILABLE  ALLOWED DISRUPTIONS  AGE
zookeeper  N/A            1                0                    1s

  3. Complete all additional steps in the displayed installation output under NOTES. The notes provide commands to validate the installation along with other valuable information you need to review and save. To redisplay the notes after installation, see Helm commands.

Step 3: Install Kafka brokers

  1. Enter the following command to verify that the ZooKeeper services are running:

    kubectl get pods -n operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cc-manager-85749c4b5-fsvvm     1/1     Running   1          40m
cc-operator-54f54c694d-fpncm   1/1     Running   0          40m
zookeeper-0                    1/1     Running   0          10m
zookeeper-1                    1/1     Running   0          10m
zookeeper-2                    1/1     Running   0          10m

  2. Enter the following command:

    helm install \
-f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
--name kafka \
--namespace operator \
--set kafka.enabled=true \
./confluent-operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME:   kafka
LAST DEPLOYED: Mon May 20 14:13:14 2019
NAMESPACE: operator
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/Secret
NAME            TYPE    DATA  AGE
kafka-apikeys   Opaque  1     1s
kafka-sslcerts  Opaque  0     1s

==> v1/StorageClass
NAME                              PROVISIONER           AGE
kafka-standard-ssd-us-central1-a  kubernetes.io/gce-pd  1s

==> v1alpha1/KafkaCluster
NAME   AGE
kafka  1s

  3. Complete all additional steps in the displayed installation output under NOTES. The notes provide commands to validate the installation along with other valuable information you need to review and save. To redisplay the notes after installation, see Helm commands.

Step 4: Install Schema Registry

  1. Enter the following command to verify that the Kafka broker services are running:

    kubectl get pods -n operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cc-manager-85749c4b5-fsvvm     1/1     Running   1          68m
cc-operator-54f54c694d-fpncm   1/1     Running   0          68m
kafka-0                        1/1     Running   0          26m
kafka-1                        1/1     Running   0          26m
kafka-2                        1/1     Running   0          26m
zookeeper-0                    1/1     Running   0          38m
zookeeper-1                    1/1     Running   0          38m
zookeeper-2                    1/1     Running   0          38m

  2. Enter the following command:

    helm install \
-f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
--name schemaregistry \
--namespace operator \
--set schemaregistry.enabled=true \
./confluent-operator

    Note

    If you want to bin pack this component or any of the remaining Confluent Platform components, add --set disableHostPort=true to the installation command. This is not recommended for production deployments. Note that you should not bin pack Kafka or ZooKeeper.

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME:   schemaregistry
LAST DEPLOYED: Mon May 20 14:39:26 2019
NAMESPACE: operator
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/PhysicalStatefulCluster
NAME            AGE
schemaregistry  0s

==> v1/Secret
NAME                     TYPE    DATA  AGE
schemaregistry-apikeys   Opaque  1     0s
schemaregistry-sslcerts  Opaque  0     0s

  3. Complete all additional steps in the displayed installation output under NOTES. The notes provide commands to validate the installation along with other valuable information you need to review and save. To redisplay the notes after installation, see Helm commands.

Step 5: Install Kafka Connect

  1. Enter the following command to verify that the Schema Registry services are running:

    kubectl get pods -n operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cc-manager-85749c4b5-fsvvm     1/1     Running   1          74m
cc-operator-54f54c694d-fpncm   1/1     Running   0          74m
kafka-0                        1/1     Running   0          32m
kafka-1                        1/1     Running   0          32m
kafka-2                        1/1     Running   0          32m
schemaregistry-0               1/1     Running   0          6m4s
schemaregistry-1               1/1     Running   0          6m4s
zookeeper-0                    1/1     Running   0          43m
zookeeper-1                    1/1     Running   0          43m
zookeeper-2                    1/1     Running   0          43m

  2. Enter the following command:

    helm install \
-f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
--name connectors \
--namespace operator \
--set connect.enabled=true \
./confluent-operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME:   connect
LAST DEPLOYED: Mon May 20 14:47:23 2019
NAMESPACE: operator
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/PhysicalStatefulCluster
NAME        AGE
connectors  1s

==> v1/Secret
NAME                 TYPE    DATA  AGE
connectors-apikeys   Opaque  1     1s
connectors-sslcerts  Opaque  0     1s

  3. Complete all additional steps in the displayed installation output under NOTES. The notes provide commands to validate the installation along with other valuable information you need to review and save. To redisplay the notes after installation, see Helm commands.

Step 6. Install Confluent Replicator

  1. Enter the following command to verify that the Connect services are running:

    kubectl get pods -n operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cc-manager-85749c4b5-fsvvm     1/1     Running   1          81m
cc-operator-54f54c694d-fpncm   1/1     Running   0          81m
connectors-0                   1/1     Running   0          5m49s
connectors-1                   1/1     Running   0          5m49s
kafka-0                        1/1     Running   0          39m
kafka-1                        1/1     Running   0          39m
kafka-2                        1/1     Running   0          39m
schemaregistry-0               1/1     Running   0          13m
schemaregistry-1               1/1     Running   0          13m
zookeeper-0                    1/1     Running   0          51m
zookeeper-1                    1/1     Running   0          51m
zookeeper-2                    1/1     Running   0          51m

  2. Enter the following command:

    helm install \
-f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
--name replicator \
--namespace operator \
--set replicator.enabled=true \
./confluent-operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    LAST DEPLOYED: Mon May 20 14:54:38 2019
NAMESPACE: operator
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/PhysicalStatefulCluster
NAME        AGE
replicator  1s

==> v1/Secret
NAME                 TYPE    DATA  AGE
replicator-apikeys   Opaque  1     1s
replicator-sslcerts  Opaque  0     1s

  3. Complete all additional steps in the displayed installation output under NOTES. The notes provide commands to validate the installation along with other valuable information you need to review and save. To redisplay the notes after installation, see Helm commands.

Step 7: Install Confluent Control Center

  1. Enter the following command to verify that the Replicator services are running:

    kubectl get pods -n operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cc-manager-85749c4b5-fsvvm     1/1     Running   1          85m
cc-operator-54f54c694d-fpncm   1/1     Running   0          85m
connectors-0                   1/1     Running   0          9m25s
connectors-1                   1/1     Running   0          9m25s
kafka-0                        1/1     Running   0          43m
kafka-1                        1/1     Running   0          43m
kafka-2                        1/1     Running   0          43m
replicator-0                   1/1     Running   0          2m10s
replicator-1                   1/1     Running   0          2m10s
schemaregistry-0               1/1     Running   0          17m
schemaregistry-1               1/1     Running   0          17m
zookeeper-0                    1/1     Running   0          55m
zookeeper-1                    1/1     Running   0          55m
zookeeper-2                    1/1     Running   0          55m

  2. Enter the following command:

    helm install \
-f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
--name controlcenter \
--namespace operator \
--set controlcenter.enabled=true \
./confluent-operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME:   controlcenter
LAST DEPLOYED: Mon May 20 14:58:23 2019
NAMESPACE: operator
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/PhysicalStatefulCluster
NAME           AGE
controlcenter  1s

==> v1/Secret
NAME                    TYPE    DATA  AGE
controlcenter-apikeys   Opaque  1     1s
controlcenter-sslcerts  Opaque  0     1s

==> v1/StorageClass
NAME                                      PROVISIONER           AGE
controlcenter-standard-ssd-us-central1-a  kubernetes.io/gce-pd  1s

  3. Complete all additional steps in the displayed installation output under NOTES. The notes provide commands to validate the installation along with other valuable information you need to review and save. To redisplay the notes after installation, see Helm commands.

Step 8: Install Confluent KSQL

  1. Enter the following command to verify that the Confluent Control Center services are running:

    kubectl get pods -n operator

  2. Enter the following command:

    helm install \
-f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
--name ksql \
--namespace operator \
--set ksql.enabled=true \
./confluent-operator

    You should see output similar to the following example:

    NAME:   ksql
LAST DEPLOYED: Tue May 21 14:53:10 2019
NAMESPACE: operator
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/PhysicalStatefulCluster
NAME  AGE
ksql  0s

==> v1/Secret
NAME           TYPE    DATA  AGE
ksql-apikeys   Opaque  1     0s
ksql-sslcerts  Opaque  0     0s

==> v1/StorageClass
NAME                             PROVISIONER           AGE
ksql-standard-ssd-us-central1-a  kubernetes.io/gce-pd  0s

  3. Complete all additional steps in the displayed installation output under NOTES. The notes provide commands to validate the installation along with other valuable information you need to review and save. To redisplay the notes after installation, see Helm commands.

All components should be successfully installed and running.

kubectl get pods -n operator

NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cc-manager-85749c4b5-8p58q     1/1     Running   0          4h31m
cc-operator-54f54c694d-qjb7w   1/1     Running   0          4h31m
connectors-0                   1/1     Running   0          4h15m
connectors-1                   1/1     Running   0          4h15m
controlcenter-0                1/1     Running   0          4h18m
kafka-0                        1/1     Running   0          4h20m
kafka-1                        1/1     Running   0          4h20m
kafka-2                        1/1     Running   0          4h20m
ksql-0                         1/1     Running   0          21m
ksql-1                         1/1     Running   0          21m
replicator-0                   1/1     Running   0          4h18m
replicator-1                   1/1     Running   0          4h18m
schemaregistry-0               1/1     Running   0          4h18m
schemaregistry-1               1/1     Running   0          4h18m
zookeeper-0                    1/1     Running   0          4h30m
zookeeper-1                    1/1     Running   0          4h30m
zookeeper-2                    1/1     Running   0          4h30m

Note

Deleting components: If you are installing components for testing purposes, you may want to delete components soon after deploying them. See Deleting a Cluster for instructions; otherwise, continue to next steps to test the deployment.

Step 9: Test the deployment

Complete the following steps to test and validate your deployment.

Note

Use oc instead of kubectl commands for OpenShift. Otherwise, the commands are identical. For example, instead of kubectl get pods -n operator you would use oc get pods -n operator.

Internal validation

  1. On your local machine, enter the following command to display cluster namespace information (using the example namespace operator). This information contains the bootstrap endpoint you need to complete internal validation.

    kubectl get kafka -n operator -oyaml

    The bootstrap endpoint is shown on the bootstrap.servers line.

    ... omitted

   internalClient: |-
      bootstrap.servers=kafka:9071

  2. On your local machine, use kubectl exec to start a bash session on one of the pods in the cluster. The example uses the default pod name kafka-0 on a Kafka cluster using the default name kafka.

    kubectl -n operator exec -it kafka-0 bash

  3. On the pod, create and populate a file named kafka.properties. There is no text editor installed in the containers, so you use the cat command as shown below to create this file. Use CTRL+D to save the file.

    Note

    The example shows default SASL/PLAIN security parameters. A production environment requires additional security. See Configuring security for additional information.

    cat << EOF > kafka.properties
bootstrap.servers=kafka:9071
sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="test" password="test123";
sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
security.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT
EOF

  4. On the pod, query the bootstrap server using the following command:

    kafka-broker-api-versions --command-config kafka.properties --bootstrap-server kafka:9071

    You should see output for each of the three Kafka brokers that resembles the following:

    kafka-1.kafka.operator.svc.cluster.local:9071 (id: 1 rack: 0) -> (
   Produce(0): 0 to 7 [usable: 7],
   Fetch(1): 0 to 10 [usable: 10],
   ListOffsets(2): 0 to 4 [usable: 4],
   Metadata(3): 0 to 7 [usable: 7],
   LeaderAndIsr(4): 0 to 1 [usable: 1],
   StopReplica(5): 0 [usable: 0],
   UpdateMetadata(6): 0 to 4 [usable: 4],
   ControlledShutdown(7): 0 to 1 [usable: 1],
   OffsetCommit(8): 0 to 6 [usable: 6],
   OffsetFetch(9): 0 to 5 [usable: 5],
   FindCoordinator(10): 0 to 2 [usable: 2],
   JoinGroup(11): 0 to 3 [usable: 3],
   Heartbeat(12): 0 to 2 [usable: 2],

... omitted

    This output validates internal communication within your cluster.

External validation

Complete the following steps to validate external communication.

Prerequisites:

Note

The examples use default component names.

  1. You use the Confluent CLI running on your local machine to complete external validation. The Confluent CLI is included with the Confluent Platform. On your local machine, download and start the Confluent Platform.

  2. On your local machine, use the kubectl get kafka -n operator -oyaml command to get the bootstrap servers endpoint for external clients. In the example below, the boostrap servers endpoint is kafka.<providerdomain>:9092.

    ... omitted

externalClient: |-
   bootstrap.servers=kafka.<providerdomain>:9092
   sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="test" password="test123";
   sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
   security.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT

  3. On your local machine where you have the Confluent Platform running locally, create and populate a file named kafka.properties based on the example used in the previous step.

    bootstrap.servers=kafka.<providerdomain>:9092
sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="test" password="test123";
sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
security.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT

    Note

    The example shows default SASL/PLAIN security parameters. A production environment requires additional security. See Configuring security for additional information.

  4. Using the Confluent CLI on your local machine, create a topic using the bootstrap endpoint kafka<providerdomain>:9092. The example below creates a topic with 1 partition and 3 replicas.

    kafka-topics --bootstrap-server kafka:9092 \
--command-config kafka.properties \
--create --replication-factor 3 \
--partitions 1 --topic example

  5. Using the Confluent CLI on your local machine, produce to the new topic using the bootstrap endpoint kafka.<providerdomain>:9092. Note that the bootstrap server load balancer is the only Kafka broker endpoint required because it provides gateway access to the load balancers for all Kafka brokers.

    seq 10000 | kafka-console-producer \
--topic example --broker-list kafka.<providerdomain>:9092 \
--producer.config kafka.properties

  6. In a new terminal on your local machine, use the Confluent CLI to consume from the new topic.

    kafka-console-consumer --from-beginning \
--topic example --bootstrap-server kafka.<providerdomain>:9092 \
--consumer.config kafka.properties

Successful completion of these steps validates external communication with your cluster.

Note

Deleting components: If you are installing components for testing purposes, you may want to delete components soon after deploying them. See Deleting a Cluster for instructions; otherwise, continue to next step to configure external access to Confluent Control Center.

The following step is an optional activity you can complete to gain additional knowledge of how upgrades work and how to access your environment using Control Center.

Step 10. Configure external access to Confluent Control Center

Complete the following steps to perform a rolling upgrade to your configuration, enable external access, and launch Control Center.

Upgrade the configuration

  1. Enter the following Helm upgrade command to add an external load balancer for the Control Center instance. Replace <provider-domain> with your platform environment domain. This upgrades your cluster configuration and adds a bootstrap load balancer for Control Center.

    helm upgrade -f ./providers/gcp.yaml \
 --set controlcenter.enabled=true \
 --set controlcenter.loadBalancer.enabled=true \
 --set controlcenter.loadBalancer.domain=<provider-domain> controlcenter \
 ./confluent-operator

  2. Get the Control Center bootstrap load balancer public IP. In the example, namespace operator is used. Change this to the namespace for your cluster.

    kubectl get services -n operator

  3. Add the bootstrap load balancer DNS entry and public IP to the DNS table for your platform environment.

Launch Confluent Control Center

Complete the following steps to launch Confluent Control Center in your cluster.

  1. Start a new terminal session on your local machine. Enter the following command to set up port forwarding to the default Confluent Control Center endpoint. In the example, namespace operator is used.

    kubectl port-forward svc/controlcenter 9021:9021 -n operator

  2. Connect to Control Center using http://localhost:9021/.

  3. Log in to Control Center. Basic authorization credentials are configured in the default <provider.yaml> file. In the example below, the userID is admin and the password is Developer1.

    ##
## C3 authentication
##
auth:
 basic:
   enabled: true
   ##
   ## map with key as user and value as password and role
   property:
     admin: Developer1,Administrators
     disallowed: no_access

    Important

    Basic authentication to Confluent Control Center can be used for development testing. Typically, this authentication type is disabled for production environments and LDAP is configured for user access. LDAP parameters are provided in the Control Center YAML file.

Note

Deleting components: If you are installing components for testing purposes, you may want to delete components soon after deploying them. See Deleting a Cluster for instructions.

See also

To get started with Confluent Operator on Kubernetes, try out the Kubernetes Demos.