What is Redpanda?

Redpanda is a Kafka® compatible event streaming platform. Read more about Red Panda here.

kPow has no reliance on Zookeeper or the JVM and is compatible with Redpanda. You may experience some reduced function where Redpanda diverges from Kafka in API or behaviour.

Quick Start

Start a single-node Redpanda cluster with the Docker container provided by Vectorized.

See: https://vectorized.io/docs/quick-start-docker/ for details of multi-broker setups.

docker run -d --pull=always --name=redpanda-1 --rm \
-p 9092:9092 \
docker.vectorized.io/vectorized/redpanda:latest \
redpanda start \
--overprovisioned \
--smp 1  \
--memory 1G \
--reserve-memory 0M \
--node-id 0 \
--check=false

Configure kPow to connect to the local Redpanda cluster.

ENVIRONMENT_NAME=Redpanda
BOOTSTRAP=127.0.0.1:9092
REPLICATION_FACTOR=1
CLUSTER_ID=red-panda-1

Start your kPow instance and navigate to the UI.