Plan a Confluent Platform Deployment with Confluent for Kubernetes

Before you deploy Confluent Platform to production with Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK), plan your environment, storage, network, security, and capacity.

In this section

• Supported Environments and Versions: Confirm that your Kubernetes platform and Confluent Platform component versions are supported.

• Namespace and RBAC Strategy: Choose how to organize CFK and Confluent Platform across namespaces.

• Plan Storage: Select storage classes and volumes for the stateful components.

• Plan Networking: Decide how clients and components reach your clusters.

• Plan Security: Plan authentication, authorization, and network encryption.

• Plan Capacity and Sizing: Size CPU, memory, and storage for your workload.

• Plan Log Retention and Deployment Constraints: Plan log retention and review configuration constraints that you can’t change after you deploy.

When you finish planning, use the Pre-Deployment Checklist before you install CFK.