This Highly-Secure cluster-ready Apache Kafka KRaft 4.0.0 image includes mTLS, JMX, Connector-Plugins and Kafka processes managed via systemd. Kafka-logs are on a separate disk from the OS and can be managed separately. The image includes Kafka-ACL and Certificate management scripts to Easily Onboard Secure client applications as well as maintain Kafka-Component Security. Deployment and Troubleshooting Support is on hand. The objective is to simplify the deployment of Highly Secure Kafka and also provide for deploying as a cluster - all that is required is the following 4 lines in user data. #!/bin/bash; hostnamectl set-hostname hostnamehere.domain; hostname >/var/lib/kafka/kafka_2.13-4.0.0/.NODES; hostname >/var/lib/kafka/kafka_2.13-4.0.0/.THISNODE