Redpanda Streaming

Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible streaming platform built from scratch in C++ using a thread-per-core architecture (Seastar). It implements the Kafka wire protocol, so any Kafka client that supports Kafka 0.11 or later works against Redpanda without code changes. This skill covers what a developer does via the Kafka API: producing, consuming, managing topics, running transactions, and using tiered storage.

This skill is about the Kafka API surface (port 9092 by default). For the Admin HTTP API see the streaming-admin-api skill. For rpk CLI reference see the rpk skill.

Quickstart

1. Connect with rpk

# Local / self-managed — no auth
rpk topic list --brokers localhost:9092