rpk

Interact with Redpanda Cloud.

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

Run and manage Redpanda Connect streaming pipelines. Redpanda Connect is a high-performance stream processor for mundane data engineering tasks.

Manage a local Redpanda container cluster for development and testing. Creates containers using Docker or Podman.

Debug the local Redpanda process.

Generate a configuration template for related services.

Manage Kafka consumer groups, including listing groups, viewing lag, and resetting offsets.

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

Measure filesystem performance and create IO configuration file.

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

Manage rpk configuration profiles. Profiles store connection settings for different clusters, making it easy to switch between environments.

Interact with a local Redpanda process.

Commands to interact with the schema registry.

Manage Redpanda security.

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

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

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

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.

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.