diff --git a/kafka-admin/pom.xml b/kafka-admin/pom.xml
index a94c1873..677c44f1 100644
--- a/kafka-admin/pom.xml
+++ b/kafka-admin/pom.xml
@@ -223,6 +223,10 @@
             <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
             <artifactId>quarkus-hibernate-validator</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-kafka-client</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.smallrye.common</groupId>
             <artifactId>smallrye-common-annotation</artifactId>
diff --git a/kafka-admin/src/main/java/org/bf2/admin/kafka/admin/handlers/OperationsHandler.java b/kafka-admin/src/main/java/org/bf2/admin/kafka/admin/handlers/OperationsHandler.java
index 773606e7..16b52009 100644
--- a/kafka-admin/src/main/java/org/bf2/admin/kafka/admin/handlers/OperationsHandler.java
+++ b/kafka-admin/src/main/java/org/bf2/admin/kafka/admin/handlers/OperationsHandler.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package org.bf2.admin.kafka.admin.handlers;
 
+import io.quarkus.runtime.annotations.RegisterForReflection;
 import org.bf2.admin.kafka.admin.Operations;
 import org.bf2.admin.kafka.admin.model.Types;
 import org.eclipse.microprofile.openapi.annotations.Operation;
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage;
 
+@RegisterForReflection
 public interface OperationsHandler {
 
     @POST
diff --git a/kafka-admin/src/main/resources/application.properties b/kafka-admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
index ea667b48..e6c403ff 100644
--- a/kafka-admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/kafka-admin/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -21,11 +21,9 @@ quarkus.http.ssl.certificate.key-file=${kafka.admin.tls.key:}
 
 # See https://quarkus.io/guides/kafka-dev-services
 # Enable when using quarkus-kafka-client
-#quarkus.kafka.devservices.enabled=false
+quarkus.kafka.devservices.enabled=false
 
-# Remove when quarkus-kafka-client supports Kafka client 3.0
-quarkus.index-dependency.kafka-clients.group-id=org.apache.kafka
-quarkus.index-dependency.kafka-clients.artifact-id=kafka-clients
+quarkus.vertx.max-event-loop-execute-time=4000
 
 # The following properties will be used when adding JWT RBAC provided by quarkus-smallrye-jwt
 quarkus.smallrye-jwt.enabled=true
@@ -45,7 +43,7 @@ quarkus.swagger-ui.theme=monokai
 
 quarkus.log.category."org.apache.kafka".level=WARN
 
-kafka.admin.oauth.enabled=${quarkus.smallrye-jwt.enabled}
+kafka.admin.oauth.enabled=${quarkus.smallrye-jwt.enabled:true}
 # Default limit to the number of partitions that new topics may have configured.
 kafka.admin.num.partitions.max=100
 # Default resource/operations mapping
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 21551ec0..98ee0a70 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
         <!-- Dependencies -->
         <quarkus.version>2.7.6.Final</quarkus.version>
         <jandex-maven-plugin.version>1.2.1</jandex-maven-plugin.version>
-        <kafka.version>3.0.0</kafka.version>
         <strimzi-oauth.version>0.8.1</strimzi-oauth.version>
         <smallrye.jwt.version>3.5.3</smallrye.jwt.version>
         <hamcrest.version>2.1</hamcrest.version>
@@ -70,11 +69,6 @@
                 <artifactId>kafka-admin</artifactId>
                 <version>${project.version}</version>
             </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
-                <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
-                <version>${kafka.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>io.strimzi</groupId>
                 <artifactId>kafka-oauth-client</artifactId>