Blog

Discover articles about Apache Kafka, event streaming, real-time data processing,

Latest Apache Kafka Blogs

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.

Axual Product
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.

Axual Product

Browse by category:

Read more about Real Time Data & Event Streaming

Rachel van Egmond
April 4, 2020
Real-Time Data Processing: Essential Insights You Need to Know
Real-Time Data Processing: Essential Insights You Need to Know

Data processing today is the most important asset of a business.To keep pace with modern technology, a business needs to keep up to date with data in real-time. Any business can use the updated data to collect information and sell their products if and only if, their data is recorded in real-time.

Real Time Data Processing
Rachel van Egmond
January 23, 2020
What is Apache Kafka?
What is Apache Kafka?

Apache Kafka: Have you ever been confused by all this talk about Kafka and streaming? Get the basics in this post full of information.

Apache Kafka
Strimzi production ready?
Strimzi production ready?

Strimzi is widely used to run Apache Kafka on Kubernetes in production. This blog looks at why teams choose Strimzi, how it supports Kubernetes-native operations, where it scales, and what operational practices matter most. It also covers common challenges around upgrades, monitoring, node maintenance, and incident recovery.

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.