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title: "Manually Deploy an Apache Kafka Cluster on Akamai"
description: "Learn how to deploy and test a secure Apache Kafka cluster on Akamai using provided, customizable Ansible playbooks."
authors: ["John Dutton","Elvis Segura"]
contributors: ["John Dutton","Elvis Segura"]
contributors: ["John Dutton","Elvis Segura","Philip Tellis","Nathan Melehan"]
published: 2024-11-20
modified: 2025-05-29
keywords: ['apache kafka','kafka','data stream','stream management']
license: '[CC BY-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0)'
external_resources:
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- `region`: The data center region for the cluster.
- `image`: The distribution image to be installed on each Kafka instance. The deployment in this guide supports the `ubuntu24.04` image.
- `group` and `linode_tags` (optional): Any [groups or tags](/docs/guides/tags-and-groups/) you with to apply to your cluster’s instances for organizational purposes.
- `firewall_label` (optional): The label for a [Cloud Firewall](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/cloud-firewall) that can be created for the cluster. If this label is not provided, the firewall is not created.
- `vpc_label` (optional): The label for a [VPC](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/vpc) that can be created for the cluster. If this label is not provided, the VPC is not created.
- `domain_name` and `ttl_sec` (optional): A domain name and [TTL (in seconds)](https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/troubleshooting-dns-records#set-the-time-to-live-or-ttl) for the cluster. Each cluster instance is assigned a subdomain of this domain name. For example, if your domain name is `example.com`, a record named `instance_label.example.com` is created for each instance. If a domain name is not provided, these records are not created.
- `cluster_size`: The number of Kafka instances in the cluster deployment. Minimum value of 3.
- `sudo_username`: A sudo username for each cluster instance.
- `country_name`, `state_or_province_name`, `locality_name`, and `organization_name`: The geographical and organizational information for your self-signed TLS certificate.
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image: linode/ubuntu24.04
group:
linode_tags:
firewall_label:
vpc_label:

# Optional settings for DNS
domain_name:
ttl_sec:

cluster_size: 3
client_count: 2
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