Strimzi

A very good representative with some of our maintainers at #Current26 London next week talking about Strimzi, Apache Kafka and AI/ML. Join them at ... Strimzi AMA (Expected Tue 19th 4:30 PM) with Kate Stanley, Paolo Patierno and Gantigmaa Selenge ... The lightning talk "KRafting your Kafka cluster on Kube" with Kate Stanley (Tue 19th 12:30 PM) and ... ... the breakout session "Streaming AI/ML with Apache Kafka: Real-Time Patterns for Modern Intelligence" with Paolo Patierno (Wed 20th 11:00 AM) https://lnkd.in/eRnJ9iAC

📢Let's meet our #StrimziCon 2026 keynote speakers! Kate Stanley and Paolo Patierno will be your hosts during the event and they will talk about one year of Strimzi and its future! Join us on June 3rd, register here https://lnkd.in/d8EiAv-J

I wrote a short write-up on the Strimzi 1.0.0 CRD migration path for GitOps-managed Kubernetes environments using ArgoCD. The post covers: • CRD versioning and storage changes • The Strimzi conversion tooling • storedVersions cleanup • ArgoCD synchronization implications • And the migration path towards Strimzi CRDs v1 I also included the upgrade plan we are currently preparing at Axual for migrating our Strimzi Operator deployment to 1.0.0. Curious to hear how others are approaching the Strimzi 1.0.0 migration path. https://lnkd.in/exN4pQZ2

📢Let's meet our #StrimziCon 2026 speakers! David Kornel and Jakub Stejskal from IBM will present "Building Strimzi MCP Server for Kubernetes: Democratizing Platform Expertise Through LLMs". Join us on June 3rd, register here https://lnkd.in/dKPUbB5B

📢Let's meet our #StrimziCon 2026 speakers! Rajith Muditha Attapattu from Randoli will present "From Running to Operating: Real-World Strimzi in Production". Join us on June 3rd, register here https://lnkd.in/dKPUbB5B

📢Let's meet our #StrimziCon 2026 speakers! Mickael Maison and Gantigmaa Selenge from IBM will present "Disaster Recovery in action with Kafka and Strimzi". Join us on June 3rd, register here https://lnkd.in/d8EiAv-J

📢Let's meet our #StrimziCon 2026 speakers! Sky Kistler from Reddit will present "Swapping the Engine Mid-Flight: How We Moved Reddit’s Petabyte Scale Kafka Fleet to Kubernetes". Join us on June 3rd, register here https://lnkd.in/dKPUbB5B

📢Let's meet our #StrimziCon 2026 speakers! Daniel Mulder will present "Who Are You? Configuring Kafka Authentication in Strimzi from TLS to Custom Principals". Join us on June 3rd, register here https://lnkd.in/dKPUbB5B

📢Let's meet our #StrimziCon 2026 speakers! Jakub Scholz will present "Beyond the Install: Take full ownership of your Strimzi cluster". Join us on June 3rd, register here https://lnkd.in/dKPUbB5B

#Strimzi 1.0.0 has been released! 🎉 🥳 ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ Important: Strimzi 1.0.0 supports only the new v1 CRD API. The older v1beta2, v1beta1, and v1alpha1 APIs are no longer supported. Before upgrading to Strimzi 1.0.0, make sure to convert all custom resources and upgrade the CRDs. The main changes in this release include: * Remove support for the v1beta2 API (and v1alpha1 and v1beta2 for KafkaTopic and KafkaUser) and fully move to the v1 API * Add support for #ApacheKafka 4.1.2 * Add support for advertisedPortTemplate in listener configuration to add more flexibility when configuring advertised ports. * Support for type: environment-variable rack awareness based on environment variables that do not require ClusterRoleBindings * Add support for TLS/SSL on the HTTP Bridge * Add support for force-renewal of KafkaUser certificates via strimzi.io/force-renew annotation * The UseConnectBuildWithBuildah feature gate moves to the beta stage and is enabled by default * And many more ... 🔗 For more details, a full list of changes, and installation files, go to https://lnkd.in/dK9yBKFP or check the https://lnkd.in/dNPQ7GiG. 🎬 You can also check the “What’s new” video about the main new features on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/d6n3eVfc Thanks to everyone who contributed to all our releases and helped us on the journey to get here! 🙏