# Metadata Management of Kafka in Confluent Platform As of Confluent Platform version 8.0, metadata storage and leader elections for Apache Kafka® are handled by Kafka using KRaft controllers. - For more details on what KRaft is, see [KRaft Overview for Confluent Platform](kraft.md#kraft-overview) - For hardware requirements and how to configure and monitor KRaft see [KRaft Configuration for Confluent Platform](config-kraft.md#configure-kraft) - For steps to migrate from ZooKeeper to KRaft, see [Migrate from ZooKeeper to KRaft on Confluent Platform](../installation/migrate-zk-kraft.md#migrate-zk-kraft) - For links to ZooKeeper documentation for older versions of Confluent Platform, see [ZooKeeper Topic Guide](zk-production.md#zk-prod-deployment)