Manage Confluent Platform with Confluent for Kubernetes

This section contains the topics that describe how to use Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) to manage Confluent Platform application resources, including the following resources:

• Kafka Admin REST Class

• Kafka Topics

• Schemas

• Connectors

• Cluster Linking

Additionally, you can find the topics to:

• Scale clusters

• Scale storage

• Manage security

• Restart Confluent Components

• Delete Confluent Deployment

• Manage Confluent Cloud

Manage Confluent Platform application resources using CFK CRDs, Confluent REST API, and Confluent CLI

The following table lists what CFK API, also known as Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), Confluent REST API, and Confluent CLI you can use to manage each Confluent Platform management task.

Important

Starting with Confluent Platform version 8.0, ZooKeeper is no longer part of Confluent Platform.

Confluent Component	Management Aspect	Declarative API (CRD)	Confluent CLI	Confluent REST API
Kafka	Create, update, delete topics	kafkatopic CRD	kafka topic, kafka-topics.sh, kafka-configs.sh	Topic
Kafka	Simple ACLs	N/A	kafka acl	ACL
Kafka	Delete, config update brokers	kafka CRD	kafka broker	Configs
Kafka	Cluster Linking	clusterlink CRD	kafka link	Cluster Linking
Kafka	Mirror topics	clusterlink CRD	kafka mirror	Create a cluster link
Kafka	View partitions	N/A	kafka partition	Partition
Kafka	Manage partition assignment	Enable Self-Balancing Cluster capability	kafka-reassign-partitions.sh	Partition
Kafka	Manage consumer groups	N/A	kafka-consumer-groups.sh	Consumer Group
Schema Registry	Schemas	Schema CRD	schema-registry schema	Schema Registry
Schema Registry	Link schemas	SchemaExporter CRD	schema-registry exporter	Schema Registry
Connect	Connectors	Connector CRD	connect plugin	Kafka Connect
Kafka / MDS	Manage RBAC	ConfluentRoleBinding CRD	iam rbac	Confluent Metadata
ZooKeeper, KRaft, Kafka, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, Connect, Control Center	Restart components	Component CRDs	N/A	N/A
ZooKeeper, KRaft, Kafka, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, Connect, Control Center	Delete deployments	Component CRDs	N/A	N/A