
Get started with OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka
Follow these step-by-step instructions to get started with Apache Kafka and to consume and /produce messages. You will also learn about topic retention configuration.
Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka is a managed cloud service for architects and developers working on event-driven applications. It provides hosted and managed, high-availability Kafka clusters on-demand, so you can focus on developing your applications while Red Hat takes care of the infrastructure.
In this learning path you’ll sign up for a free Red Hat account, provision a managed Kafka instance, and connect to it using service account credentials via SSL.

Create a Red Hat account
Make your own account and access the console.

Provision a Kafka instance
Create an instance and and specify your details.

Create a service account
Connect your applications to a Kafka instance.

Connect to the Kafka instance
Download the appropriate options for your systems.

Topics and partitions recap
Take a quick topics and partitions refresher.

Creating a topic
Make topics through the user interface (UI).

Viewing topic information
See how partitions replicate across brokers.

Producers and consumers recap
Read this quick producers and consumers recap.

Producing and consuming messages
Learn how to produce and consume messages.

Changing topic retention
Learn how to modify data retention defaults.