Kafka Deployment Options

There are many Deployment options for kafka

• Software as a Service
• Hybrid/ Cloud
• OnPrem

1 Software as a Service

SAAS based Cloud is most popular option for Kafka. Almost all cloud services support Kafka as Software as a service. Cloud base offering have many advantages. You can get Kafka up and running faster. and this is also managed by cloud team. you don’t need to do patching and maintenance.

Cloud option can support all nonfunctional requirements. for example, failover and high availability. We can take example of AWS MSK.

AWS MSK is managed stream for Apache Kafka.

Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka

2 Hybrid/Cloud

Second option to install and deploy Kafka is Hybrid option. Hybrid option can be done in many different ways. for example, you can have main Kafka service in Cloud and your other services are running in on prem server. another example can be your Kafka is running on Cloud as managed service and other Kafka ecosystem components are working on cloud virtual machines.

Cloud option can support all nonfunctional requirements. for example, failover and high availability. We can take example of AWS MSK.

3 On Prem

Third option you have is to install this on Prem. You have to manage all Kafka echo system by yourself.