Deploy & Configure

Installation, configuration, and production deployment guides for Zilla Gateway, Zilla Plus, and Zilla Console.

Zilla Gateway

Deploy Gateway

Run Zilla via Docker, deploy to Kubernetes with Helm, or install locally via Homebrew.

Configure Gateway

Connect to Kafka clusters, enable auto-reconfigure, and manage incubator features.

Upgrade to Zilla Plus

Migrate from open-source Zilla to Zilla Plus to unlock commercial Gateway capabilities.

Migrating to 2.x

Backwards-incompatible config changes to check before upgrading a running zilla.yaml deployment to 2.0.0.

Zilla Plus in Production

AWS Deployment Options

AWS ECS Fargate

Deploy Zilla Plus as an auto-scaling ECS Fargate service, with vCPU-based Marketplace metering.

AWS EKS

Deploy Zilla Plus to Amazon EKS on EC2-backed or Fargate-backed node groups.

AWS AMI

Launch Zilla Plus directly from a prebuilt Amazon Machine Image.

Zilla Plus for Amazon MSK

Secure Public Access

Expose Kafka securely over the internet with TLS and JWT authentication.

Secure Private Access

Enable private Kafka connectivity across VPCs and accounts without opening broker ports.

Web Streaming

Let Web clients publish and stream to a Kafka topic in your Amazon MSK cluster over REST and SSE.

IoT Ingest & Control

Give MQTT clients a broker entry point into your Amazon MSK cluster.

Virtual Kafka Clusters

Partition a single Kafka cluster into isolated namespaces with per-team access controls.

Dynamic Topic Aliases

Route per-client Kafka topics with AWS Cognito on AWS ECS Fargate.

Zilla Console

Deploy Console

Deploy Zilla Console using the umbrella Helm chart, installing its Console, management plane, and control plane components together.

Deploy on Amazon EKS

Deploy Zilla Console on Amazon EKS, including AWS prerequisites, SMTP, IAM, and DNS configuration.

Deploy on Self-Managed K8s

Deploy Zilla Console on a self-managed Kubernetes cluster or Docker Desktop using the umbrella Helm chart.

Configure Security

Register Certificate Authorities and manage mTLS client certificates for Zilla Console environments.