# 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.