Configuration Overview for Confluent for Kubernetes¶
The following configuration options are described in this section:
- Storage
- Confluent License
- Custom Docker Registry
- CPU and Memory
- Networking
- Security
- Pod Scheduling
- Kafka Connect
- Replicator
- Rack Awareness
- Advanced configuration
Kubernetes Custom Resources for Confluent Platform¶
Confluent Platform components are deployed to a Kubernetes cluster as custom resources (CRs).
Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) provides the custom resource definitions (CRDs) that were
created using Kubernetes API. These CRDs describe how to configure Confluent Platform
components. The CRDs are provided in the yaml
files in the Confluent for Kubernetes
distribution in the crds
directory.
For the settings that are not supported in Confluent CRDs, CFK automatically
calculates and sets the values based on the relevant factors. For example, the
default.replication.factor
and min.insync.replicas
Kafka configuration
values are set based on the broker replica count.
If you need to override these default configuration values that CFK sets, or to provide additional configuration information that is not supported in the CRDs, you can use the configuration overrides feature in CFK to pass the configuration property to Kafka.
For the configuration settings for Confluent Platform components, see Confluent Platform Configuration Reference. For example, supported Kafka configuration settings can be found in Kafka Broker Configurations.
Use kubectl to examine Confluent Platform CRDs¶
The kubectl explain command describes the fields associated with Kubernetes API resources, including the Confluent Platform CRDs.
To get a list of the Confluent Platform CRDs:
kubectl api-resources --api-group=platform.confluent.io
To describe a specific Confluent Platform CRD:
kubectl explain <CRD-type>.<fieldName>[.<fieldName>]
You can drill down the CRD specification by appending a
<fieldName>
from thekubectl explain
output.For example:
kubectl explain kafka.spec.podTemplate
And to further examine the
affinity
field listed in the output:kubectl explain kafka.spec.podTemplate.affinity
Confluent plugin¶
Confluent plugin is a composite CLI tool integrated with the Kubernetes
ecosystem through the kubectl
plugin interface. You can use the plugin to
debug and diagnose your Confluent Platform deployed through Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK).
See Confluent plugin for installation instructions.
Use the following command to get the comprehensive usage instruction:
kubectl confluent
The following are some of the example commands:
To see all of the external and internal endpoints that you can use to access Confluent components:
kubectl confluent http-endpoints
To convert Operator 1.x to CFK 2.0:
kubectl confluent migration
To check if the current user has cluster-level access:
kubectl confluent operator --namespaced=false pre-check
To check if the current user has the namespaced level access:
kubectl confluent operator pre-check