Cloud

rpk Commands

This page contains an alphabetized list of rpk commands. Each command includes a table of flags and their descriptions.

You can also get descriptions for each flag by running rpk <command> --help in your locally-installed Redpanda, and you can get descriptions of all rpk-specific options by running rpk -X help.

All rpk commands feature autocompletion. To use the feature, press tab. See rpk generate shell-completion.
  • rpk

    The rpk is Redpanda's command line interface (CLI) utility.

  • rpk -X

    This command lets you override rpk configuration options.

  • rpk cloud

    Interact with Redpanda Cloud.

  • rpk cluster

    Manage and inspect Redpanda cluster configuration, health, and maintenance operations.

  • rpk generate

    Generate a configuration template for related services.

  • rpk group

    Describe, list, and delete consumer groups and manage their offsets. Consumer groups allow you to horizontally scale consuming from topics.

  • rpk help

    Help provides help for any command in the application. Simply type rpk help [path to command] for full details.

  • rpk plugin

    List, download, update, and remove rpk plugins. Plugins augment rpk with new commands.

  • rpk profile

    Manage rpk profiles. An rpk profile talks to a single Redpanda cluster.

  • rpk registry

    Commands to interact with the schema registry.

  • rpk security

    Manage Redpanda security.

  • rpk shadow

    Manage Redpanda Shadow Links. Shadowing is Redpanda's enterprise-grade disaster recovery solution that establishes asynchronous, offset-preserving replication between two distinct Redpanda clusters.

  • rpk topic

    Manage Kafka topics, including creating, deleting, and configuring topics. Also includes commands for producing and consuming messages.

  • rpk transform

    Develop, build, deploy, and manage WebAssembly (Wasm) data transforms for Redpanda.

  • rpk version

    Prints the current rpk and Redpanda version. This command prints the current rpk version and allows you to list the Redpanda version running on each node in your cluster.