README.md

Awesome Strimzi

A curated collection of community-created resources for Strimzi. This repository hosts community contributions, including blog posts, tutorials, tools, SDKs, demos, and more.

We use the popular Awesome list format to showcase valuable content created by contributors outside the official Strimzi organization. This gives visibility to community efforts while ensuring relevancy and quality.

Contents

• Official Resources
• Getting Started
• Articles and Blog Posts
• Talks and Presentations
• Libraries and SDKs
• Tools and Utilities
• Integrations
• Community Examples and Demos
• Learning and Tutorials

Official Resources

Links to official Strimzi documentation and repositories:

• Strimzi Documentation - The official Strimzi documentation.
• Strimzi GitHub Organization - The GitHub Strimzi organization.

Getting Started

Beginner-friendly guides and quickstart materials:

• Strimzi Quick Start Guide – A walkthrough to deploy and start using Strimzi on Kubernetes.

Articles and Blog Posts

Community-authored content covering use cases, deep-dives, and technical walkthroughs:

• Strimzi Blog – The official Strimzi blog.

Talks and Presentations

Conference talks, meetup sessions, and webinars featuring Strimzi:

• Strimzi Presentations - The official Strimzi page with demos and presentations.
• Autoscaling Apache Kafka with Strimzi - Demo showing how to configure autoscaling of Strimzi-based Apache Kafka clusters

Libraries and SDKs

Community-supported code helping integrate or extend Strimzi/Kafka:

• Strimzi Golang API - Golang API for managing Strimzi custom resources from Go-based applications

Tools and Utilities

Command-line tools, dashboards, configuration utilities:

• Keksposé - Exposes your Strimzi-based Apache Kafka cluster using port-forwarding outside your Minikube, Kind, or Docker Desktop Kubernetes environment
• Strimzi Shutdown - Simple utility to temporarily stop or restart your Strimzi-based Apache Kafka cluster that can be used from command line or as a scheduled job
• Strimzi Backup - Utility to back or restore Strimzi-based Apache Kafka and Connect clusters
• Strimzi Compose Up - Run Apache Kafka cluster using the Docker Compose tool with Strimzi container images
• Zoo Entrance - Proxy for opening direct connections to Apache ZooKeeper inside a Strimzi-based Apache Kafka cluster
• ca-controller-for-strimzi - Creates Strimzi conform Kubernetes secrets from Kubernetes TLS secrets (e.g. created via cert-manager)
• Streamshub-console - Web application designed to facilitate interactions with Apache Kafka leveraging Strimzi operator custom resources.

Integrations

How Strimzi works alongside other platforms, frameworks, and tools:

• Strimzi Headlamp Plugin - A Headlamp plugin for managing Strimzi resources (Kafka clusters, topics, users) directly from the Headlamp Kubernetes UI (demo)

Community Examples and Demos

Real-world setups, proofs of concept, and sample projects demonstrating Strimzi in action:

• Strimzi API examples - Examples of how to use the Strimzi API from your Java applications
• Custom Principal Builder - Example of a custom Apache Kafka principal builder that can be used with Strimzi
• Custom Strimzi Pod Security provider - Example of a custom Strimzi Pod Security Provider that can beused to customize the security contexts of Strimzi-managed Pods

Learning and Tutorials

Workshops, self-paced tutorials, and other structured learning resources for Strimzi:

• Strimzi Debugging - A series of debugging sessions for Strimzi.

Contributing

We welcome contributions of new resources! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to propose additions.