Redpanda Cloud Quickstart

Go to Redpanda Cloud and click Log in.

Enter your organization name, and click Continue.

Click Add namespace.

Enter a name for your namespace, and click Create.

Click Create Dedicated cluster.

For cluster settings, enter redpandaquickstart for the cluster name. Use default values for the remaining properties, and click Next.

On the Networking page, use the default Public connection type, and click Create.

Wait for your network and your cluster to be created.

Install rpk on your local machine:

On the Overview page of Redpanda Cloud, copy your bootstrap server address and set it as an environment variable on your local machine:

export RPK_BROKERS="<bootstrap-server-address>"

In Redpanda Cloud, go to Security and create a user called redpanda-chat-account that uses the SCRAM-SHA-256 mechanism.

Copy the password, and set the following environment variables on your local machine:

export REDPANDA_SASL_USERNAME="redpanda-chat-account"
export REDPANDA_SASL_PASSWORD="<password>"
export REDPANDA_SASL_MECHANISM="SCRAM-SHA-256"

In Redpanda Cloud, click the name of your user and add the following permissions to the ACL (access control list):

Click Create.

Use rpk on your local machine to authenticate to Redpanda as the redpanda-chat-account user and get information about the cluster:

rpk cluster info -X tls.enabled=true

Create a topic called chat-room.

rpk topic create chat-room -X tls.enabled=true

TOPIC       STATUS
chat-room  OK

Produce a message to the topic:

rpk topic produce chat-room -X tls.enabled=true

Enter a message, then press Enter:

Pandas are fabulous!

Produced to partition 0 at offset 0 with timestamp 1663282629789.

Press Ctrl+C to finish producing messages to the topic.

Consume one message from the topic:

rpk topic consume chat-room --num 1 -X tls.enabled=true

{
  "topic": "chat-room",
  "value": "Pandas are fabulous!",
  "timestamp": 1663282629789,
  "partition": 0,
  "offset": 0
}