rpk connect

Manage Redpanda Connect agents. Agents allow you to build AI-powered workflows using Redpanda Connect resources.

Execute Bloblang mappings from the command line. Provides a convenient tool for mapping JSON documents.

Prints a new Redpanda Connect config to stdout containing specified components according to an expression.

Test pipeline configurations by performing a dry run. Exits with a status code 1 if any connection errors are detected in a directory.

Parse a config file and echo back a normalized version. This command is useful for sanity checking a config if it isn’t behaving as expected, as it shows you a normalised version after environment variables have been resolved.

Shows a list of commands or help for one command.

Install Redpanda Connect. This command installs the latest version by default.

Check a Redpanda Connect configuration file for syntax errors and potential issues without running it.

List available Redpanda Connect components. Shows inputs, outputs, processors, caches, rate limits, buffers, metrics, and tracers that can be used in pipelines.

Execute an MCP server against a suite of Redpanda Connect resources. Each resource will be exposed as a tool that AI can interact with.

Manage custom Redpanda Connect plugins. Use these commands to create and initialize plugin projects for extending Redpanda Connect with custom components.

Run a Redpanda Connect pipeline from a configuration file. The pipeline streams data between inputs and outputs with optional processing.

Run Redpanda Connect in streams mode, where multiple pipelines can be executed in a single process and can be created, updated, and removed via REST HTTP endpoints. The config field specified with the --observability/-o flag is known as the root config and should only contain observability and service-wide config fields such as http, metrics, logger, resources, and so on.

Work with Redpanda Connect templates. Templates allow you to define reusable configuration patterns.

Run unit tests defined in Redpanda Connect configuration files to verify pipeline behavior.

Uninstall the Redpanda Connect plugin.

Upgrade to the latest Redpanda Connect version.

string

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

stringArray

Override rpk configuration settings; -X help for detail or -X list for terser detail.

bool

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

string

rpk profile to use.

bool

Enable verbose logging.