Managed Kafka on CreateOS

Managed Apache Kafka for real-time event streaming, message queuing, and building event-driven architectures.

Use Cases

  • Real-time data pipelines
  • Event-driven microservices
  • Log aggregation
  • Stream processing
  • Activity tracking
  • Metrics collection

Features

  • Managed brokers
  • Topic management
  • Consumer groups
  • Message retention
  • Partitioning
  • SSL/SASL authentication

How to Set Up

  1. Create Kafka instance

    Add a Kafka service to your project from the services panel.
  2. Create topics

    Define the topics your application will use for messaging.
  3. Get connection details

    Copy the bootstrap servers and authentication credentials.
  4. Connect producer/consumer

    Use Kafka client libraries to publish and consume messages.

Pricing

Plus plan: 10 topics. Pro plan: 100 topics. Enterprise: Custom.