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How to configure Kafka Authentication in Strimzi

Learn how to configure secure Kafka authentication in Strimzi for multi-tenant environments. This technical guide covers mTLS, certificate-chain principals, tenant-specific listeners, custom principal builders, OAuth bearer authentication, and the risks of relying on Strimzi internals.

Strimzi Kafka
Release Blog 2026.2 - The Summer Release

Axual 2026.2, the Summer LTS release, brings continuous message fetching and CEL-based queries to Topic Browse, Externalised Groups for managing membership through your Identity Provider, the move to Apicurio v3, improved Audit Events, KSML 1.3, and new MCP Server capabilities.

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Strimzi 1.0.0: CRD Versioning, Conversion, and GitOps Operations

A technical overview of the Strimzi 1.0.0 CRD migration path, including CRD versioning, conversion tooling, storage updates, and operational considerations for ArgoCD-managed GitOps Kubernetes environments.

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Rachel van Egmond
January 24, 2022
Axual named a representative vendor in the 2022 Gartner market guide for event stream processing
Axual named a representative vendor in the 2022 Gartner market guide for event stream processing

We’re excited to announce that Axual, provider of an all-in-one Kafka platform for enterprises, is listed as a representative vendor in the 2022 Gartner market guide for event stream processing.

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Rachel van Egmond
December 24, 2021
Axual Release Update 2021.3
Axual Release Update 2021.3

2021 is almost a wrap, but not until we have announced our last major release of this year: Axual Platform 2021.3. Read all about it in this blog.

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Joris Meijer
December 7, 2021
Governing Your Data: The Kafka Compliance Checklist
Governing Your Data: The Kafka Compliance Checklist

So you’ve architected a new streaming platform. It has quickly become the ‘central nervous system’ of your company. A couple of teams have already started working with Kafka and they’re continuously adding new real-time streaming use cases.

Apache Kafka
Joris Meijer
November 25, 2021
Is it time to decentralize your data organization?
Is it time to decentralize your data organization?

Centralized data administration can be great for smaller organizations. A single team of admins acts as gatekeeper on an event streaming platform, like Apache Kafka. It means data governance can be enforced from the top down to ensure full data compliance. But as your business grows, you find more and more developers need you to […]

Apache Kafka for Business
Jeroen van Disseldorp
August 23, 2021
Apache Kafka drives Rabobank Real-Time Financial Alerts
Apache Kafka drives Rabobank Real-Time Financial Alerts

Rabobank used Kafka Streams APIs to do real-time alerting on financial events for their customers. Learn more about the use case in this blog.

Apache Kafka Use Cases
Joris Meijer
July 29, 2021
Axual Release Update 2021.2
Axual Release Update 2021.2

The summer release 2021.2 is here, it contains many quality and stability improvements and some interesting new features. Read the release blog to find out more.

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