How to Manage Kafka Clusters in Confluent Cloud with Pulumi
Event streaming is used across diverse industries that demand real-time data processing. Apache Kafka is the most popular open-source streaming platform. Confluent Cloud lets you run Kafka on the cloud provider of your choice.
In this blog post, you’ll use the Confluent Cloud Pulumi provider and Pulumi to create a Kafka cluster, topic, and customer account.
- About Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud
- Initializing the Project
- Adding Resources
- Testing Kafka Cluster
- See it in action
- Conclusion
- Additional Resources
About Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud
What is Apache Kafka?
Apache Kafka is an event store and stream-processing platform, used by more than 30% of the Fortune 500 today. Using Kafka streams, developers can write modern, event-driven applications for real-time data streaming and processing. Kafka is used across many industries, including gaming, financial services, healthcare, retail, automotive, and manufacturing.