Hello,
My name is Ely, I am a customer success engineer at Statehub, we provide a global PersistentVolumes allowing stateful applications on Kubernetes to access their PVs across clusters (regions and clouds) to access

I’m currently creating a blog post about launching Kafka cluster using Koperator while leveraging our technology for a stateful Kafka cluster that will allow fast failover between one Kubernetes cluster to the other.

While testing your guide and launching a fully functional example Kafka cluster I noticed that all the components launched are using deployments and not StatefulSet, thus providing the PVC a name with a suffix that is auto-generated.

Is it possible to deploy the Kafka and Zookeeper pods using a statefulSet with PersistentVolumeClaims instead of a deployment?
Providing a global name that will be recognized across clusters will allow us to launch a new Kafka cluster using the data and volumes from the previous cluster. in order for that to happen, we need zookeeper and Kafka volumes to have a unique and global ID and not be generated.
I browsed through the repository but couldn’t find an example of a config that will use STS instead of deployment.

I’d appreciate your opinion,
Thanks in advance,
Ely