Kafka on Kubernetes 1.23+ with AWS EBS requires CSI driver

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storageUpdated Mar 24, 2026

Sources

Troubleshoot in Confluent for Kubernetesdocs.confluent.io

Technologies:

Confluent Platformsubject

KubernetesThe root cause of this issue originates in Kubernetes

Amazon EKSThe root cause of this issue originates in Amazon EKS

How to detect:

CFK and Kafka fail to install or operate on Kubernetes 1.23 or higher when using AWS EBS storage without the EBS CSI driver add-on enabled.

Recommended action:

Enable and set up the EBS-CSI add-on for Amazon EKS as described in AWS documentation for 'Managing the Amazon EBS CSI driver as an Amazon EKS add-on'.