Why choose calisti
Top reasons why organizations choose Calisti.
“Organizations that are looking to simplify and secure their multi-cloud production cloud-native applications and data streaming platforms like Apache Kafka on Kubernetes should consider Calisti.
Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
Calisti helps organizations of all sizes to manage their production cloud-native applications and streaming data platforms like Apache Kafka effortlessly and flexibly on Kubernetes. The best part? You don’t have to be a Kubernetes or Apache Kafka expert.
Unlike other solutions that use StatefulSets for fine-grained control of broker configurations, Calisti is based on simple Kubernetes resources, which offers a much more flexible approach while retaining the fine-grained control of the broker configuration.
Single instance of Calisti can easily manage all production workloads anywhere - on-premises, hybrid multicloud, with multi-gateway support.
Calisti offers out of the box tracing and Kafka protocol-aware observability such as consumer group metrics, information about apps and their version of the client libraries, request validation, protocol version translations, and more.
Graceful event-based cluster scaling using integrated open source Cruise Control component from LinkedIn, and vertical capacity scaling that increase application uptime and reduce MTTR.
Fully compliant with the rules for cryptographic modules of FIPS 140-2 Security Level 1; the ciphers used are even more secure the minimum allowed by the standard.
Calisti fully automates mutual TLS (mTLS) encryption and authentication, providing mTLS out-of-the box. Calisti also uses mesh Certificate Authority to peer into TLS-encrypted traffic flows.
Calisti seamlessly integrates with popular GitOps tools like ArgoCD allowing users to manage their deployments, updates, and rollbacks with automated workflows and continuous delivery pipelines.