Using Kubernetes Configuration Provider to load data from Secrets and Config Maps When running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, you will sooner or later probably need to use Config Maps or Secrets. Either to store something in them, or load them into your Kafka configuration. That is true regardless of whether you use Strimzi to manage your Apache Kafka cluster or something else. Kubernetes has its own way of using Secrets and Config Maps from Pods. But they might not be always sufficient. That is why in Strimzi, we created Kubernetes Configuration Provider for Apache Kafka which we will introduce in this blog post. Usually, when you need to use data from a Config Map or Secret in your Pod, you will either mount it as volume or map it to an environment variable. Both methods are configured in the spec section or the Pod resource or in the spec.template.spec section when using higher level resources such as Deployments or StatefulSets. When mounted as a volume, the contents of the Secr...