What

kas-fleetshard needs to cause cruise-control to be deployed into kafka instance of 6 brokers or more, configured with the optimisation goals described by the Epic.  It also needs to take care of concerns such as configuring logging.  Metrics are a concern of a separate JIRA.

How

Useful links:

Strimzi blogpost about using Cruise Control - https://strimzi.io/blog/2020/06/15/cruise-control/

Strimzi docs for configuring Cruise Control - https://strimzi.io/docs/operators/latest/configuring.html#cruise-control-concepts-str

Cruise Control project - https://github.com/linkedin/cruise-control