Deploy Kafka on-premises without losing control
While the industry pushes cloud-only narratives, your data sovereignty, regulatory requirements, and latency constraints haven't disappeared. Axual brings enterprise-grade streaming to your data center, private cloud, or VPC, with the governance built in.
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Feature-rich on-premises architecture
Deploy Axual's containerized platform on your Kubernetes infrastructure with complete architectural control. Every component runs in your data center or private cloud, from Kafka brokers to the governance layer, Schema Registry, and monitoring stack. Your hardware, your network, your rules. With enterprise streaming capabilities intact.
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Multi-cluster resilience across data centers
Deploy active-active Kafka clusters across your facilities with Axual distributor. Your streams can continue even when entire data centers go dark.
Air-gapped security for sensitive environments
Run completely disconnected from the internet when regulations demand it. Full platform capabilities without external dependencies.
Optimized deployment leveraging your infrastructure
Run your streaming solution with the hardware you choose. NVMe storage, high-speed interconnects, GPU acceleration, for maximum streaming throughput.
Integrated legacy system connectivity
Connect mainframes, SCADA systems, and proprietary protocols that cloud platforms can't reach. Enable your existing infrastructure for event streaming.
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Regulatory-compliant data Retention
Configure retention policies per your compliance requirements, with data residing on your approved storage systems under your audit controls.
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Core capabilities that prevent future complexity
Compliance without compromise
Financial regulations, healthcare privacy laws, and energy sector security requirements often mandate isolated deployment like on-premise, private Cloud, and VPC. Axual ensures you can modernize your data architecture while satisfying every regulatory checkbox. Stream sensitive data in real-time without explaining to auditors why you moved it to the cloud. Compliance and innovation aren't mutually exclusive, when you maintain control.
Leverage what you've built
Your organization has invested millions in data centers, network infrastructure, and specialized hardware. Axual transforms these assets into a modern streaming platform without abandoning them. While others face expensive cloud migrations and re-architecture projects, you're already processing billions of events on infrastructure you own. Evolution, not revolution.
Mission-critical reliability
When your streams power critical infrastructure, energy grids, payment systems, patient monitoring, you need absolute control over availability. On-premises deployment eliminates internet dependencies, cloud provider outages, and network uncertainties. Your uptime depends on your team's competence, not someone else's infrastructure. For systems that cannot fail, control cannot be outsourced.
True hybrid architecture
On-premises doesn't have to mean isolated. Axual's platform seamlessly bridges your data center with cloud services when needed, creating a hybrid architecture on your terms. Process sensitive data locally while leveraging cloud for analytics. Connect partner systems without exposing internal infrastructure. You define the boundaries, not your cloud provider's network architecture.
Answers to your questions about Axual’s All-in-one Kafka Platform
Are you curious about our All-in-one Kafka platform? Dive into our FAQs for all the details you need, and find the answers to your burning questions.
Axual runs on Kubernetes, which deploys perfectly on VMware vSphere, OpenStack, or bare metal. You don't need to abandon your existing virtualization investments. In fact, many financial services clients run production Axual on VMware with dedicated resource pools for predictable performance. The key is ensuring your Kubernetes nodes have sufficient CPU, memory, and fast storage (preferably NVMe) for Kafka's I/O requirements.
Here's what cloud vendors won't tell you: managed Kafka services solve the easy problems while leaving you with the hard ones: governance, schema evolution, and multi-tenancy. Axual's self-service governance layer means your teams create topics and manage access without touching Kafka internals. Yes, you'll manage infrastructure, but you're probably already doing that. The operational overhead is upgrading Kubernetes pods, not wrestling with Kafka ACLs at 2 AM.
Absolutely. This is precisely why on-premises deployment exists. Axual Connect (our managed Kafka Connect service) runs in your data center, directly accessing mainframes, SCADA systems, and proprietary databases. We've seen energy companies stream real-time data from 30-year-old industrial systems. Your legacy infrastructure becomes part of your event-driven architecture without costly replacements or risky migrations.
Your streaming platform continues running exactly as before. Unlike cloud services, on-premises Axual has zero external dependencies. No phone-home requirements, no license servers to contact, no external authentication services. Air-gapped deployments are fully supported for classified environments. When your data streams power critical infrastructure, internet connectivity becomes irrelevant, as it should be.
You scale on your terms with your hardware. Add Kafka brokers to your existing cluster, or spin up new clusters in minutes using your infrastructure. No cloud provider quotas, no support tickets for limit increases, no surprise throttling. During peak trading hours or energy demand spikes, your performance depends on the infrastructure you've provisioned, completely predictable and under your control.
Axual's architecture doesn't lock you into any deployment model. Start on-premises today, add cloud clusters tomorrow. Our Distributor component replicates data between any clusters: on-premises to cloud, cloud to on-premises, or across data centers. Many organizations run production on-premises while developing in the cloud. Your deployment topology can evolve with your business requirements, not despite them.