Chat Control is back! 😶 Today, the Council of the EU without further debate advanced a revised CSAM regulation. After widespread protests, mandatory scanning of all messages was removed from the draft law, but much remains. What then is in the latest version of Chat Control? 🧐

#Strimzi 0.49.0 is out! 🎉 ⚠️ This release contains many important changes (including backwards compatibility impact), deprecations, and removals. Make sure to watch the What's new video and read the release notes carefully before upgrading! ➡️ github.com/strimzi/stri... 🎦 youtu.be/aIGZD8lk6vc

I saw the future at #KubeCon in Atlanta ... but now it is time to head back to the open-air museum EU 🙄 ...

Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know-

Czech Republic: one of the #DataOnKubernetes superpowers. At least judging by the #DoKDay at #KubeCon speaker line-up. Right now, David Pech is talking about "a Postgres journey from DIY to autopilot self-service".

On my way to #KubeCon ... See you in Atlanta! 🤞

1/2 Is it normal to do this kind of paid marketing for an open-source project proposal that is still under discussion? Or did I miss it, and #ApacheKafka KIP-1150 was approved? thenewstack.io/why-diskless...

If you are curious about what is coming in #Strimzi 0.49.0, want to learn more about the #Strimzi v1 CRD API, and the plans for our 1.0.0 release, I prepared a few short videos to give you a preview of what to expect ...

If you use #Strimzi for local #ApacheKafka development with Minikube or Kind, Keksposé is the perfect tool for exposing your Kafka cluster locally and making local application development easy. If that sounds useful, go and try it out: github.com/scholzj/keks...

When you spend too much time in the Java land, boxed primitives such as Boolean or Integer might seem like a great thing. But then you try to use an API built on them in Go. And that is when you realize what a bad idea it was.

Ok, the original proposal was maybe a bit premature. But I opened a new one that is covering more different things and approaching it from a bit more complex perspective. Surely, this one will be the real deal: github.com/strimzi/prop... 😉

Well, at least thanks to the IBM mess, I can celebrate my 8 years at Red Hat today! 🎉

1/2 In December of 2023, I wrote a blog post about our progress towards #Strimzi 1.0.0: strimzi.io/blog/2023/12.... I said there that it is unlikely to happen in 2024. Sadly, I can now say that it will not happen in 2025 either. 😞

Stuck in Frankfurt for a few hours due to flight delays. But at least the view provides some kind of compensation ... 😉

1/3 Today was the last day of my 6 months off from work. I spent it mostly by walking, traveling, reading, binge watching TV shows, and stuff like that. It might seem like I wasted six month of my life. But I found it great to be able to switch off and do "nothing" all day long.

Kubernetes v1.34: User preferences (kuberc) are available for testing in kubectl 1.34-

1/3 Support for Amazon MSK IAM authentication (github.com/strimzi/stri...) was one of the #Strimzi feature requests with most 👍 reactions. But for an open source project like Strimzi, it is not easy to directly support proprietary features like this.

Crossing the Forth Road Bridge on foot was with my fear of heights an interesting mental 🤯 challenge ... but I made it! 🎉

I wanted to test #Strimzi authentication with SASL AWS_MSK_IAM against #AmazonMSK. But after an hour of trying to setup an MSK cluster that I can access from my home lab I gave up. I guess either I'm getting old or AWS UX is even worse than it used to be. 🙄

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: MORGAN ROGERS WINS THE PFA YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD 🏆 Rogers becomes the fifth Aston Villa player to win the award after Andy Gray (1976-77), Gary Shaw (1980-81), Ashley Young (2008-09) and James Milner (2009-10) #AVFC

1/2 How do you get Strimzi container images? Do you pull them directly from the #Strimzi container registry? Do you keep copies of the containers in your own registry? Or do you build Strimzi from source? Each approach has some (dis)advantages and potential risks.

Want to learn more about #ApacheKafka and #Strimzi? Have a look at the Day 13 (released on August 13th 😉) from the "30 Days of CNCF Projects" series: youtu.be/CygWOf2NhYw

The feeling ... when you are lucky enough that you managed to get home before the rain started ... but upset because you were carrying an umbrella with you the whole day and didn't need it 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️😂

1/2 One of the frequent questions we get from our #Strimzi users is about how to stop a Kafka cluster (and later start it again). For example, to stop a test or development clusters when they are not needed to save resources. To make this easier, I created a new tool.

As a #Strimzi maintainer, I was always curious about one particular aspect of how our users use Strimzi: How do they get the binaries? (especially for production-grade environments) To help me better understand it, I created a short survey: forms.gle/fxDbyqK39eZH...

Zero CVE container images are like porn ... they set unreasonable expectations!

1/3 I used AI voice for the "What's new in Strimzi 0.47.0" video (youtu.be/uxYkznM6m4c). And now I cannot decide if I like it or not. I think technically, the result is fine. And it solves several issues I had with the videos I voiced myself.

#Strimzi 0.47.0 is out! 🎉 ... with many new features and bug fixes. For more info, check out the GitHub release page or our "What's new" video: ➡️ github.com/strimzi/stri... 🎦 youtu.be/uxYkznM6m4c

Have you ever imagined what the real world would look like if it worked like open source? Instead of being unhappy with your moronic president or useless government, you would just get together with some like-minded people and ...

I usually like LinkedIn. But when it first keeps showing all the posts from (ex)colleagues that they will move to IBM on Monday ... and then it keeps showing all the posts that they "started" a new job ... it quickly becomes useless. I guess I will be back there in a week or two. 🤦‍♂️

Helping someone set up a demo by getting social media updates from Bluesky and Mastodon into #Kafka using Kafka Connect This seems to come up every couple months, when someone wants to illustrate an event stream processing pattern with an easy-to-understand but real event source

See it. Open a PR. Sorted. 😉

From the sky-high mountain-tops to the bottom of the lake ... and back!

Two months ago, I blogged about how #Kubernetes Image Volumes might help when adding plugins to #Strimzi and #ApacheKafka deployments. The support has now been merged into Strimzi's main branch and will be released as part of the 0.47.0 release: github.com/strimzi/stri... 🎉

I've been talking about the ops benefits of using Kubernetes annotations to store info about your #Kafka topics in #Strimzi - with an example of how to automate that to easily keep track of topics that aren't being used any more

Caught a great session at #Current2025 London from Jakub Scholz of the @strimziio project on scaling Apache Kafka. A few highlights:

I love #Strimzi users like Jorge 🤩 ... cloud-native.slack.com/archives/CMH... ➡️ Asks for some help and guidance, but is willing to investigate and try things out to find the right solution ➡️ Shares the working solution at the end so that others can learn from it as well

This week: Playing with vertical autoscaling of #Strimzi and #ApacheKafka with #Kubernetes in-place updates to pod resources. Next week: Talking about horizontal autoscaling of #Strimzi and #ApacheKafka at #Current25

Just because people are asking a lot of "Why" questions doesn't mean that they are not getting the "It is what it is" answers! 😉 (Amazon vs. Uber)

1/3 I'm glad that CNCF and Synadia came to some agreement about NATS. But does it really restore the trust in the project? The blog post does not really make it clear how they will achieve a win-win future for both parties. 😞 www.cncf.io/announcement...

Strimzi 0.46.0 is out ... And after some travel time, I have now updated my #Strimzi Go API to it as well: github.com/scholzj/stri...

Spent 6 days in the UK and not a single raindrop. What is going on with that country? 🤔

"Disobey - their power comes from our obedience" (Chila Kumari Singh Burman / Imperial War Museum North, Manchester) ... applies to so many things!

There is no place like home ... #AVFC #UTV

Strimzi is in demand today 😍 ... 5 new LinkedIn jobs mentioning it among skills or responsibilities! I have no idea how to share the search link to LinkedIn ... but if you are interested, I'm sure you will be able to find it ... 😉

I’ll be speaking at Current 2025 in London on May 20th about auto-scaling Apache Kafka with Strimzi and Kubernetes. Hope to see you there! For details and registration, check out the event agenda: current.confluent.io/london/agenda

Kubernetes v1.33: Image Volumes graduate to beta!-

Kubernetes v1.33: HorizontalPodAutoscaler Configurable Tolerance-

1/2 Trying to use one of the latest Strimzi releases on Kubernetes 1.33? You have to set the Kubernetes version manually in the Cluster Operator using the STRIMZI_KUBERNETES_VERSION environment variable to get the Cluster Operator started.