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rpk — Manage Redpanda topics, clusters, groups, security, and more via a single binary. More information:

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Problem

How to use the rpk command: Manage Redpanda topics, clusters, groups, security, and more via a single binary. More information: <https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/rpk/>.

Solution

rpk — Manage Redpanda topics, clusters, groups, security, and more via a single binary. More information: <https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/rpk/>.

Create a new topic:

rpk topic create {{topic_name}}

Produce a message to a topic:

rpk topic produce {{topic_name}}

Consume messages from multiple topics:

rpk topic consume {{topic_name1 topic_name2 ...}}

List all topics:

rpk topic list

Display cluster information:

rpk cluster info

List all consumer groups:

rpk group list

Describe a consumer group with lag information:

rpk group describe {{group_name}}

Display version:

rpk version

Code Snippets

Create a new topic

rpk topic create {{topic_name}}

Produce a message to a topic

rpk topic produce {{topic_name}}

Consume messages from multiple topics

rpk topic consume {{topic_name1 topic_name2 ...}}

List all topics

rpk topic list

Display cluster information

rpk cluster info

Context

tldr-pages: common/rpk

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