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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.

Axual Product
7 Reasons Europe Doesn’t Trust AWS’s “Sovereign” Cloud

This blog explores why many European organizations and policymakers remain skeptical of AWS’s “sovereign” cloud initiative. From concerns around US jurisdiction and the CLOUD Act to questions about operational independence, data governance, and true digital sovereignty, we break down the key reasons behind Europe’s hesitation. The article also examines the broader push for European cloud alternatives and what this means for enterprises navigating compliance, security, and infrastructure strategy.

Axual Product
Release Blog 2026.1 - The Spring Release

The Axual 2026.1 release builds on the improvements in governance, observability, and self-service introduced in 2025.4, and takes things a step further. This release adds audit event coverage across platform resources, giving teams more visibility and control over what’s happening in the platform. We’ve also extended OAuth support to all data plane components, making security more consistent end to end. On top of that, updates to Connector management and the Overview Graph make the platform easier to use and give clearer insight into platform activity.

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Joris Meijer
January 20, 2023
Release blog 2022.4 – the winter release
Release blog 2022.4 – the winter release

Enriched topic graph, stream insights, stream browse access control and more. Read more about all the exciting stuff that we've shipped in this release.

Axual Product
Jurre Robertus
January 12, 2023
Why you need RBAC and ABAC to Scale Apache Kafka across your organization
Why you need RBAC and ABAC to Scale Apache Kafka across your organization

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. In this blog we explore how role-based access control and attribute-based access control enables the use of Kafka® enterprise wide.

Apache Kafka
Jurre Robertus
November 23, 2022
Use cases for Apache Kafka: How can you add business value?
Use cases for Apache Kafka: How can you add business value?

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. This new way of using data has a lot of use cases.

Apache Kafka Use Cases
Richard Bosch
October 25, 2022
Kafka Security – did you miss something?
Kafka Security – did you miss something?

Communication security, authentication, authorization and message security. There are a lot of security settings you need to configure when working with Apache Kafka. In this blog post, Richard explains the four key security subjects.

Kafka Security
Jurre Robertus
October 19, 2022
Terraform for Apache Kafka— How does it impact IT operations and lifecycle management.
Terraform for Apache Kafka— How does it impact IT operations and lifecycle management.

In this blog, we will discuss how Terraform impacts IT operations and lifecycle management for Apache Kafka.

Apache Kafka
Richard Bosch
October 12, 2022
Why open-source Kafka is not free
Why open-source Kafka is not free

In this post, Richard explains why open-source Apache Kafka is not free when you start using it as an enterprise solution.

Apache Kafka
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