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Kafka is a fast, horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, message queue service. Kafka is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. There are a few Helm based installers out there including the official Kubernetes incubator/kafka. However, in this article, I walk through applying a surprisingly small set of Kubernetes configuration files needed to stand up high performance, highly available Kafka. Manually applying Kubernetes configurations gives you a step-by-step understanding of the system you are deploying and limitless opportunities to customize.