Get started with OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka

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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.

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Create a Red Hat account

Make your own account and access the console.

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Provision a Kafka instance

Create an instance and and specify your details.

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Create a service account

Connect your applications to a Kafka instance.

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Connect to the Kafka instance

Download the appropriate options for your systems.

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Topics and partitions recap

Take a quick topics and partitions refresher.

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Creating a topic

Make topics through the user interface (UI).

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Viewing topic information

See how partitions replicate across brokers.

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Producers and consumers recap

Read this quick producers and consumers recap.

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Producing and consuming messages

Learn how to produce and consume messages.

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Changing topic retention

Learn how to modify data retention defaults.

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