This article will teach you how to easily programmatically deploy Apache Kafka on Red Hat’s OpenShift cloud using Strimzi and AMQ Streams.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. This article describes an easy way for developers to deploy Kafka on Red Hat OpenShift. There are multiple ways to use Kafka in the cloud. One way is to use IBM’s managed Event Streams service or Red Hat’s managed service OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka. The big advantage of managed services is that you don’t have to worry about managing, operating, and maintaining the messaging systems. As soon as you deploy services in your own clusters, you are usually responsible for managing them.