• lots of general examples: https://github.com/vdesabou/kafka-docker-playground

• cp-plaintext - Minimalistic setup of plaintext CP on k8s

• cp-sasl-ldap* - LDAP AuthN callback example

• hybrid - (Cloud-)hybrid setups, e.g. self-managed connect

• kraft - KRaft-based examples

• cluster-linking - Cluster linking

• schema-linking - Schema exporter tests

• connect - Connector examples

• ksqldb - ksqldb examples

• clients - Example client applications

• datadog - Datadog integration

• tools - Tools for testing, e.g. containers with kcat and networking tools

• Option 1 - Add license as a kubernetes secret

echo -n "license=<paste your key here>" > license.txt
kubectl create secret generic confluent-license \
  --from-file=license.txt=./license.txt \
  --namespace confluent

and reference in spec.license for each relevant component:

license:
  secretRef: confluent-license

• Option 2 - Add a global license

helm upgrade --install confluent-operator \
  confluentinc/confluent-for-kubernetes \
  --namespace confluent \
  --set licenseKey=<paste your key here>

and reference in spec.license:

license:
    globalLicense: true