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PROD Deployment

Production should use infrastructure managed to the organization’s availability, security, and support standards.

  • External Kafka cluster rather than a single bundled broker.
  • PostgreSQL or MS SQL for the Log Archive DB.
  • TLS for remote Grid/API access and secure broker protocols where required.
  • Named service accounts and least privilege.
  • Scheduled working-directory and database backups.
  • Monitoring of Runtime health, Archiver health, queue lag, disk, and database capacity.
  • Approved change and rollback procedures.
Built-in brokers

Bundled brokers are convenient for DEV and TEST. They should not be assumed to satisfy production HA, capacity, patching, or support requirements.

Windows production note​

Linkiir services can run on Windows. For production Kafka, Linux-hosted brokers are operationally preferred. A Windows Linkiir tier can connect to a dedicated Linux Kafka cluster.