Get started with OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka

Learning path | 11 resources | 2 hrs and 30 mins | Published on March 29, 2022
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.

  1. Overview: Get started with OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka
  2. Provision a Kafka instance Page | 15 mins
  3. Create a service account Page | 15 mins
  4. Connect to the Kafka instance Page | 15 mins
  5. Topics and partitions recap Page | 15 mins
  6. Creating a topic Page | 15 mins
  7. Viewing topic information Page | 15 mins
  8. Producers and consumers recap Page | 15 mins
  9. Configuring account access permissions Page | 15 mins
  10. Producing and consuming messages Page | 15 mins
  11. Changing topic retention Page | 15 mins

Overview: Get started with OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka

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Create a Red Hat account

You need a Red Hat account to provision a managed Kafka instance. If you don’t have a Red Hat account, this is how you can create one:

  1. Go to console.redhat.com.
  2. Click the Register for a Red Hat account link to create a Red Hat account.
  3. Select the Personal account type.
  4. Complete the form.

Once you’ve completed the sign-up process, you’ll be taken to a landing page (Figure 8) where you will be able to access the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and continue this learning path.

When you create or log in to your Red Hat account, you are presented with many options and recommendations.
Figure 8: When you create or log into your Red Hat account, you are presented with many options and recommendations.