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November 18, 2019 | Episode 68

Installing Apache Kafka with Ansible ft. Viktor Gamov and Justin Manchester

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“It’s one thing to get a distributed system up and running. It’s another thing to get a distributed system up and running well.” Ansible keeps your Apache Kafka® deployment, management, and installation consistent, and it enables you to implement best practices that make it easy to get started. Justin Manchester (Platform DevOps Engineer, Confluent) and Viktor Gamov (Developer Advocate, Confluent) discuss the problems that Ansible is trying to solve, enabling collaboration and optimizing all components for top performance.

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