Stephen, Thank you for your work on this! This is especially important with Bitnami no longer offering free and versioned images for their Helm charts.
I personally would be interested in contributing and using an official Kafka Helm chart through my organization and in my personal use. Nick On 2025/03/24 13:50:31 Stephen Askew wrote: > Hi All, > > I've opened a new KIP-1149: Helm Chart for Apache Kafka< https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1149%3A+Helm+Chart+for+Apache+Kafka> with the proposal to have an official Helm chart to deploy Apache Kafka to Kubernetes. > > The initial Jira ticket (KAFKA-6416< https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6416>) requesting this was created back in 2018, but now that the project has an official Docker container image it would now seem appropriate to have a matching Helm chart. > > There is a draft PR<https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/19249> in Github with an initial stab at defining the solution for this. > > I look forward to seeing the discussion on this. > > Regards, > > Stephen. >
