rpk redpanda start

This command is not supported on macOS, Windows.

Start Redpanda.

Setting up a mode

It’s possible to setup a mode for redpanda to start. Currently we support the mode dev-container.

To set up the mode dev-container run:

rpk redpanda start --mode dev-container

Mode uses well-known configuration properties for development or tests environments:

Bundled flags:

  • --overprovisioned

  • --reserve-memory 0M

  • --check=false

  • --unsafe-bypass-fsync

Bundled cluster properties:

  • write_caching_default: true

  • auto_create_topics_enabled: true

  • group_topic_partitions: 3

  • storage_min_free_bytes: 10485760 (10MiB)

  • topic_partitions_per_shard: 1000

  • fetch_reads_debounce_timeout: 10

After redpanda starts you can modify the cluster properties using:

rpk config set <key> <value>

Usage

rpk redpanda start [flags]

Flags

Value Type Description

--advertise-kafka-addr

strings

A comma-separated list of Kafka addresses to advertise (scheme://host:port|name).

--advertise-pandaproxy-addr

strings

A comma-separated list of Pandaproxy addresses to advertise (scheme://host:port|name).

--advertise-rpc-addr

string

The advertised RPC address (host:port).

--check

-

When set to false will disable system checking before starting redpanda (default true).

-h, --help

-

Help for start.

--install-dir

string

Directory where redpanda has been installed.

--kafka-addr

strings

A comma-separated list of Kafka listener addresses to bind to (scheme://host:port|name).

--mode

string

Mode sets well-known configuration properties for development or test environments; use --mode help for more info.

--pandaproxy-addr

strings

A comma-separated list of Pandaproxy listener addresses to bind to (scheme://host:port|name).

--rpc-addr

string

The RPC address to bind to (host:port).

--schema-registry-addr

strings

A comma-separated list of Schema Registry listener addresses to bind to (scheme://host:port|name).

-s, --seeds

strings

A comma-separated list of seed nodes to connect to (scheme://host:port|name).

--timeout

duration

The maximum time to wait for the checks and tune processes to complete. The value passed is a sequence of decimal numbers, each with optional fraction and a unit suffix, such as 300ms, 1.5s or 2h45m. Valid time units are ns, us (or µs), ms, s, m, h (default 10s).

--tune

-

When present will enable tuning before starting Redpanda.

--well-known-io

string

The cloud vendor and VM type, in the format |vendor|:|vm type|:|storage type|.

--config

string

Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are /var/lib/redpanda/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml.

-X, --config-opt

stringArray

Override rpk configuration settings. See rpk -X or execute rpk -X help for inline detail or rpk -X list for terser detail.

--profile

string

Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details.

-v, --verbose

-

Enable verbose logging.