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Quick & simple yaml for kafka on kubernetes

Want to evaluate the kafka stack on your kubernetes cluster? One of the barriers to quickly checking out the kafka ecosystem on your k8s cluster can be needing to generate your yaml from a helm chart (most likely, the confluent helm charts or cobbling the components together from the  incubator/kafka chart plus the incubator/zookeeper chart , etc)... If you are not already using helm, then the adoption cost can be suddenly steeper than you'd hoped;   I know I wrestled for a good little while getting it how I wanted, mostly because - despite my utmost google-fu, I could not find  simple, working yaml files to compare/easily grok. So... Here's a pretty basic and definitely not production-ready set of yaml files - read the notes before using! https://github.com/PaulieMac/kstack-yaml These should stand up a working kafka stack based on the https://www.confluent.io/ community suite (version 5.5.0 at time of writing). This is comprised of: zookeper kafka ...