From Running to Operating: Real-World Strimzi in Production | Rajith Attapattu, Randoli

A practical session on operating Strimzi and Apache Kafka in production environments, covering data classification strategies that influence topic configuration, replication factors, acknowledgments, and retention policies. The talk demonstrates monitoring Kafka with OpenTelemetry, troubleshooting consumer lag, and correlating production issues with Kubernetes pod metadata. It provides strategies for safer upgrades, parallel cluster migrations, and achieving high availability through topology spread constraints. Targeted at platform engineers and SREs managing Kafka on Kubernetes.