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rpk redpanda start

This command is not supported on macOS, Windows.

Start Redpanda.

Set up a mode

Redpanda supports a dev-container mode with preset configuration for development and test environments.

Run the following command to start Redpanda in dev-container mode:

rpk redpanda start --mode dev-container

This mode bundles the following flags and cluster properties:

Bundled flags:

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 cluster properties by running:

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

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

--node-tuner-state-path

string

Alternative path to read the node tuner state file from (if exists).

--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.

--ignore-profile

-

Ignore rpk.yaml and redpanda.yaml; use default settings.

--profile

string

Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details.

-v, --verbose

-

Enable verbose logging.