Gathering opinions on kafka management tools

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/devops

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  • kafka-manager

    CMAK is a tool for managing Apache Kafka clusters

  • I've used Yahoo's CMAK before for these things -

  • aws_cfn_kafka_admin_provider

    Discontinued CLI/Lib to transform simple YAML defintion of topics into CFN template

  • https://github.com/compose-x/aws_cfn_kafka_admin_provider - wrapper around the following two

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  • https://github.com/compose-x/aws_cfn_resource_ews_kafka_acls - manage ACLs in AWS CloutFormation (works for any kafka flavour, although for MSK I recommend you use the IAM integration, which for now is a Java thing only :/)

  • aws_cfn_resource_ews_kafka_topic

    AWS CFN Private resource and Lambda Function (Custom Resource) to create Kafka topics

  • https://github.com/compose-x/aws_cfn_resource_ews_kafka_topic - manage kafka topics in AWS CFN (works for MSK and any Kafka flavour)

  • esque

    esque - an operational kafka tool.

  • At my former employer, we developed a CLI Kafka management tool, maybe it'll help someone here. https://github.com/real-digital/esque

  • kafka-ui

    Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management

  • SAML is currently a problem, unfortunately. Reference

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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