How to Configure TIBCO Messaging Castle Powered by Apache Kafka in a Kubernetes Environment

The purpose of this document is to provide details on how to configure TIBCO Messaging Powered by Apache Kafka on different Kubernetes Container Platforms.  This document will detail:

• Configuring a Kubernetes cluster for Apache Kafka. The Kubernetes Container can be configured on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GK), Red Hat OpenShift (OC), or a generic Kubernetes environment.
• Creating multiple Docker® images for the Apache Kafka Core, where the containers will be hosted in a Docker Registry
• Creating persisted volumes for Kafka and Zookeeper
• Configuring and creating Kubernetes containers based on the Docker® images for the individual components
• Configuring Load Balancer(s) in Kubernetes to access Apache Kafka
• Ensuring Apache Kafka is instrumented (JMX) for TIBCO Message Monitor with the AKD extension.

Support Versions:

• The TIBCO distribution of Apache Kafka 3.0.0 or later is required Apache Kafka can be download from either edelivery.tibco.com , or
• https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-messaging/downloads.
• Docker Community/Enterprise Edition should be most recent version.
• Kubernetes 1.20 or Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7. Recommend latest versions of the container platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x or later
• Msgmon 1.0 (optional)

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