# Kafka KRaft Cluster Deployment (Ansible)
Automated deployment of a Zookeeper-less Kafka cluster using KRaft consensus mode.
Deploys Java, Kafka, and configures a production-ready KRaft cluster with:
- Controller-broker colocation
- Automatic cluster ID generation
- Systemd service management
## inv.ini
```ini
[kafka]
Node-3 ansible_host=192.168.1.10 node_id=3
Node-2 ansible_host=192.168.1.11 node_id=2
Node-1 ansible_host=192.168.1.12 node_id=1
[all:vars]
ansible_user=ubuntu- Installs OpenJDK 11
- Sets JAVA_HOME
- Deploys Kafka from binary
- Configures listeners and logs
- Creates systemd service
- Sets up KRaft consensus
- Configures controller nodes
- Config the nodes in cluster
ansible-playbook -i inv.ini java.yml
ansible-playbook -i inv.ini kafka.yml
ansible-playbook -i inv.ini kraft.ymlNote: Requires minimum 3 nodes for production KRaft deployment