rpk

Manage Redpanda streaming topics and clusters

TLDR

Create topic

$ rpk topic create [topic-name]

List topics

$ rpk topic list

Produce message

$ rpk topic produce [topic] -k [key]

Consume messages

$ rpk topic consume [topic]

Describe cluster

$ rpk cluster info

Check configuration

$ rpk redpanda config

SYNOPSIS

rpk command [subcommand] [options]

rpk is the command-line interface for Redpanda, a Kafka-compatible streaming data platform. It provides commands for managing topics, producing and consuming messages, administering clusters, and configuring Redpanda nodes, using a syntax familiar to users of Kafka's CLI tools.Topic operations include creating, deleting, describing, and listing topics, as well as producing messages to and consuming messages from topics for testing and debugging. Cluster commands provide health checks, configuration inspection, and broker management. The tool also handles ACL (Access Control List) management and consumer group operations.The -X flag passes client properties like authentication credentials and TLS settings, and --brokers specifies the cluster endpoints to connect to.