Strimzi Kafka CLI MCP server

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Strimzi Kafka CLI

Strimzi Kafka CLI is a CLI that helps traditional Apache Kafka users -both developers and administrators- to easily adapt to Strimzi, a Kubernetes operator for Apache Kafka.

The main intention is to ramp up Strimzi usage by creating a similar CLI experience with the traditional Apache Kafka tools that mostly starts with kafka-* prefix under the bin directory in an ordinary Kafka package.

Strimzi Kafka CLI uses the kfk command as an abbreviation for "Kafka For Kubernetes" or simply "k a f k a" which reminds of the kafka-* prefix of the ordinary Kafka script file names.

While having similar set of commands or options for some of the common objects, Strimzi Kafka CLI has some extra capabilities for managing or configuring Strimzi related resources.

Following are the commands of the current version of Strimzi Kafka CLI, that are used for different purposes:

Usage: kfk [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Strimzi Kafka CLI.

Options:
  --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help     Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  acls              Manages ACLs on Kafka.
  backup            Backs up and restores Strimzi resources.
    kafka             Backs up or restores a Kafka cluster and its resources.
    connect           Backs up or restores a Kafka Connect cluster and its connectors.
  clusters          Creates, alters, deletes, describes Kafka cluster(s).
  configs           Adds/Removes entity config for a topic, client, user...
  connect           Manages Kafka Connect clusters, connectors, and MirrorMaker2.
    clusters          Creates, alters, deletes, describes KafkaConnect cluster(s).
    connectors        Creates, alters, deletes, describes KafkaConnector(s).
    mirror-maker      Lists, describes, creates, deletes KafkaMirrorMaker2(s).
  console-consumer  Reads data from Kafka topics and outputs it to...
  console-producer  Reads data from standard input and publish it to Kafka.
  mcp               Starts the Strimzi MCP server.
  node-pools        Lists, describes, creates, deletes KafkaNodePool(s).
  operator          Install

Please take a look at the relevant article Strimzi Kafka CLI: Managing Strimzi in a Kafka Native Way for more details.

Installation

Using Python Package Installer

pip install strimzi-kafka-cli --user

Or to install Strimzi Kafka CLI in an isolated environment, you can simply use pipx:

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.