Jikkou Concepts

Learn the core concepts behind Jikkou — resources, reconciliation, transformations, validations, providers, and more.

This section explains key concepts used within Jikkou:

Understand Jikkou resources — entities that represent the desired state of Kafka topics, ACLs, schemas, and other system objects.

Learn how to use labels and annotations to attach identifying metadata to Jikkou resource objects.

Understand the reconciliation process for comparing and synchronizing desired and actual resource states.

Learn how to use Jikkou selectors to include or exclude resources during collection and reconciliation.

Learn how Jikkou transformations enrich, filter, and modify resource definitions before reconciliation.

Learn how Jikkou validations enforce rules and constraints on resource definitions before applying changes.

Learn how to use Jinja templating to dynamically define resource configuration files in Jikkou.

Understand how collectors discover and describe existing resources in your Kafka system.

Learn how Jikkou controllers compute and apply changes to reconcile resources in managed systems.

Understand Jikkou providers — pluggable modules that supply extensions for Kafka, Schema Registry, Aiven, and other platforms.

Learn how to use reporters to send Jikkou reconciliation changes to third-party systems.

Learn how to use Jikkou actions to execute specific one-shot operations on resources.

Explore Resource Repositories, the extensible component for loading resources from various sources.