In a project for a client, I noticed that provisioning a Kafka broker using the Strimzi operator took a long time. I was curious to see if I could do better by using the Bitnami chart instead, or by tweaking the Strimzi configuration.
iaingalloway/strimzi-vs-bitnami
An investigation into time-to-healthy comparing Kafka provisioning methods from Strimzi and Bitnami
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