Apache Kafka is one of the most robust data brokers out there. Thousands of companies use it as a data pipeline as well as a message queuing system. When it comes to deploying Kafka, there is more than one way to do so: When it comes to Kubernetes, again there’re several ways to deploy software like Kafka. You can go ahead and craft your Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Secrets. You can also use a Kubernetes Operator or a Helm Chart. Most Kubernetes clusters currently live in the cloud and AWS is one of the most commonly used cloud providers nowadays. So, our current setup can be summarized as follows: