Deploying DFM (NiFi Ops Manager) on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

Rahul Bhardwaj

Senior Technical Lead at Ksolves India Limited

As enterprises scale Apache NiFi deployments, the need for unified governance, seamless multi-cluster operations, and reduced operational overhead becomes critical. Deploying DFM (NiFi Ops Manager) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) brings together the power of a centralized NiFi management platform with the flexibility, security, and resiliency of Azure’s managed Kubernetes offering.

In this in-depth technical session, Rahul Bhardwaj (Senior Technical Lead, Ksolves) provides a complete step-by-step walkthrough of deploying DFM on AKS using Helm. From setting up cluster access to configuring secrets, certificates, namespaces, and load-balanced ingress—this session covers everything required to get DFM running in a production-ready Kubernetes environment.

Perfect for DevOps engineers, data platform teams, and NiFi administrators, this webinar demystifies the deployment journey and equips you to operationalise DFM at scale on AKS confidently.

What You’ll Learn

Understanding DFM & Why AKS

What DFM is and how it centralises, streamlines, and governs the full lifecycle of Apache NiFi flows

How DFM eliminates direct NiFi UI interactions and increases  operational efficiency by 70%

Why AKS is the ideal infrastructure choice. Autoscaling, high availability, self-healing pods, Azure AD/RBAC, and seamless integration with Key Vault, Monitor, and Storage

Preparing Your Environment

Required CLI tools (Kubectl, Helm, Azure CLI)

Setting environment variables for Azure authentication

Authenticating through  service principals

Fetching AKS cluster configuration for kubectl access

Networking & Kubernetes Prerequisites

Reserving a Static Public IP for DFM

Identifying Node Resource Group and Cluster Region

Creating Kubernetes namespaces

Setting up Docker registry secrets for private image pulls

Configuring Security & Certificates

Installing Cert-Manager for automated certificate generation

Enabling self-signed or Let's Encrypt certificates

Adding public IP to certificate configuration for HTTPS access

Creating Kubernetes secrets for: DFM Application credentials, Licensing information, Encryption keys and JWT tokens

Deploying DFM with Helm

Unzipping the DFM Helm package

Updating values.yaml for: Service configuration (LoadBalancer, ClusterIP), Public IP binding, SSL enablement, Environment variables, Ingress settings

Running the Helm install command

Validating deployment using kubectl get all

Post-Deployment Verification

Checking pods, services,  and replica sets

Accessing DFM through the browser using the public IP

Understanding certificate prompts with self-signed certs

Logging into the DFM  administrator dashboard

Key Takeaways

Learn the complete, end-to-end process of deploying DFM on  AKS using Helm

Understand how Kubernetes secrets, namespaces, certificates, and load balancers tie into a secure DFM deployment

Get a practical blueprint you can replicate across dev, staging, or production environments

Discover how DFM + AKS improves NiFi governance, reduces operational complexity, and enhances scalability

Walk away with a deploy-ready command flow and best practices straight from an expert AKS implementation

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Deploying DFM (NiFi Ops Manager) on Azure Kubernetes Service: A Complete Technical Walkthrough