Manage Redpanda in Kubernetes

Customize the values of the Redpanda Helm chart to configure the cluster and the Kubernetes components that the chart deploys.

Learn how to configure cluster properties in Kubernetes.

Use the Topic resource to declaratively create Kafka topics as part of a Redpanda deployment. Each Topic resource is mapped to a topic in your Redpanda cluster. The topic controller keeps the corresponding Kafka topic in sync with the Topic resource.

Learn how to create and manage connectors using Redpanda Console or the Kafka Connect REST API.

Find information about Redpanda storage in Kubernetes.

Tiered Storage helps to lower storage costs by offloading log segments to object storage.

Learn how to set up and manage network connections for Redpanda in Kubernetes. This section covers a range of topics, including how to enable external access, connect clients to a Redpanda cluster, and configure listeners.

Learn what options are available for securing Redpanda clusters, including TLS encryption, authentication, authorization, and audit logging.

Enable rack awareness to place partition replicas across different failure zones.

Create read-only topics (Remote Read Replica topics) that mirror topics on a different cluster.

Configure your Pod resources such as memory, CPU, and storage.

Learn how to scale a Redpanda cluster vertically to increase its resources and horizontally to add or remove brokers from a cluster.

Remove a broker so that it is no longer considered part of the cluster.

Recovery mode starts Redpanda with limited functionality and disables partitions so you can repair a failed cluster.

Find topics about how to monitor Redpanda deployments in Kubernetes.

Learn how to perform a rolling restart of your Redpanda cluster when it's running in Kubernetes.

With resilience testing, you can introduce failures and observe how the system behaves under each failure scenario.

Learn how to diagnose and troubleshoot problems with Redpanda in Kubernetes.