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Confluent Cloud

Hosted Apache Kafka with managed connectors, schema registry and stream processing. A closed product from Confluent.

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StrimziPartial5.9kApache-2.0Open sourceYesJava1.2.02026-10-05

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StrimziPartial

Apache Kafka® running on Kubernetes

Runs Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect and MirrorMaker on your own Kubernetes; no hosted schema registry or ksqlDB.

Language
Java
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
5.9k
Latest
1.2.0
Last push
2026-10-05

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