Quick setup of Axual Streaming and Governance Helm charts

Which documentation you need for your installation, depends on the deployment scenario.

Choosing your deployment scenario

Which of the following scenarios best matches your situation?

I want to try out the complete Axual Platform in my own infrastructure. I want to try out Axual Governance on my existing Kafka cluster(s) I want to onboard my own Kafka cluster(s) without installing any software or try out Governance with an Axual provided Kafka cluster

Details

If you want to try out the complete Axual Platform on your own infrastructure, you will need to deploy both the Axual Streaming and Axual Governance layers.

If you want to try out Axual Governance on an existing Kafka cluster(s), you will not need Axual Streaming. You need to deploy Axual Governance and onboard your existing Kafka cluster through the Self-Service interface. Axual Governance supports the following Kafka providers in an on-premise / private cloud installation.

  • Apache Kafka

  • Strimzi

  • AMQ Streams

  • Confluent Platform

You can onboard your own Kafka Cluster(s) using Axual Governance, by signing up and following the onboarding wizard at https://app.axual.cloud Supported Kafka providers are:

  • Aiven

  • Confluent Cloud

Prerequisites

To install Axual Platform in your own infrastructure, you need:

  • A Kubernetes (k8s) cluster (version 0.25 or above) with an ingress controller OR

  • A OpenShift cluster (version 4.12 or above)

  • Knowledge on kubernetes and helm charts

  • Permissions to install CRDs in the k8s cluster

  • Your favorite terminal

To install Axual Governance in your own infrastructure, you need:

  • Credentials for the Axual Registry (https://docker.axual.io)

  • A Kubernetes cluster (version 0.25 or above) with an ingress controller OR

  • A OpenShift cluster (version 4.12 or above)

  • Knowledge on kubernetes and helm charts

  • For the Kafka cluster you are onboarding:

    • Connectivity information (endpoint, port)

    • Security information (certificates, SASL credentials)

  • Your favorite terminal

To onboard an existing Apache Kafka cluster (Aiven, Confluent Cloud) using Axual Governance, SaaS, you need:

  • Confluent Cloud or Aiven credentials for your Kafka cluster

  • A Kafka cluster which can be reached from the cloud

Instructions

Deploying Axual Streaming and Axual Governance on Kubernetes

Deploying Axual Governance and onboarding your own Kafka cluster (Kubernetes)

Deploying Axual Governance and onboarding your own Kafka cluster (OpenShift)

Follow this link to sign up for Axual Governance and onboard your Aiven or Confluent Cloud cluster.

Additional documentation can be found here

Don’t have a cluster to onboard? You have the option to use an Axual provided shared Kafka cluster.