Getting started with Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka
Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka provides dedicated high-availability Apache Kafka clusters delivered as a service across your hybrid cloud environments, so you can process streamed data. The service provides a consistent experience across clouds, easily connects to other OpenShift workloads, and lets you provision Kafka instances in minutes.
To access a quick start that guides you through setup, please follow this link to the Red Hat Console.
Create a Kafka instance
- In the OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka web console, go to Streams for Apache Kafka > Kafka Instances and click Create Kafka instance.
- Enter a unique name for the Kafka instance, such as
my-first-kafka-instance. - From the Cloud region drop-down menu, select your region.
- The selection for availability zones is preconfigured as Single for a trial instance and Multi for a production instance.
- If you’ve purchased a subscription for OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka, use the slider to select an instance size. Instances with more streaming units have more capacity.
- Click Create instance to start the creation process for your Kafka instance.
Create a service account to connect your instance
To connect your applications or services to a Kafka instance in Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka, you need to create a service account that’s associated with the instance.
- Ensure your Kafka instance is in the Ready state.
- In the Kafka Instances page of the web console, for the relevant Kafka instance that you want to connect to, select the options icon (three vertical dots) and click Connection.
- In the Connection page, copy the Bootstrap server endpoint to a secure location. This is the bootstrap server endpoint that you’ll need for connecting to this Kafka instance.
- Click Create service account to set up the account that you’ll use to access this Kafka instance.
- Enter a short description, such as
my-service-account, and click Create. - Copy the generated Client ID and Client secret values to a secure location. These are the credentials that you’ll use to connect to this Kafka instance.
- After you save the generated credentials to a secure location, select the confirmation check box in the credentials window and close the window.
What’s next?
Once your instance is created and connected to a service account, you can set permissions, create a Kafka topic, and more. For additional information on getting started with a Kafka instance, visit the quick start hub on console.
