Get Started

• Introduction to Redpanda

  Redpanda is an event streaming platform: it provides the infrastructure for streaming real-time data.

• How Redpanda Works

  Learn about Redpanda's core architectural components.

• Redpanda Licensing

  Redpanda Community Edition is free and source-available at the Redpanda GitHub repo. Additional features are included with a license for Redpanda Enterprise Edition.

• Redpanda Quickstart

  Quickly install and run Redpanda.

• Introduction to rpk

  Redpanda Keeper (rpk) is a single binary application that provides a way to interact with your Redpanda clusters from the command line. You can install rpk as part of a bundle that includes redpanda (see the Redpanda Quickstart for instructions), or you can install the rpk binary separately.

• Build a Sample Application

  Redpanda is Kafka API-compatible, so you can leverage the countless client libraries that have been created for Kafka.