Confluent Apache Kafka Registration PaaS Services

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What is Kafka?

Kafka is an open-source distributed Message streaming platform that uses publish and subscribe mechanism to stream the records. Confluent Apache Kafka has fully managed services with major cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud providers.

How to Register Using Confluent Kafka

You can register for Kafka on Confluent IO.

Confluent Apache Kafka Registration PAAS Service

If you're new to Confluent Kafka, you can register by using the get started URL, https://www.confluent.io/get-started/.

There are two types of confluent Kafka supports on Cloud and Software

Cloud: A fully managed service available with major cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, etc for Apache Kafka®
Software: A self-managed, enterprise-grade distribution of Apache Kafka®

New signups received a 30-day trial with a 400$ Credit limit for exploring the CAK

Confluent Apache Kafka Registration PAAS Service

The login process is shown in the below screenshot steps.

Kafka Login Process

It will redirect you to a login URL with multiple options as shown in the below screenshot.

Kafka Login Page

Once successfully validated the login credentials, the home screen will be displayed as shown below.

For a free trial account, the default environment will be created by the CAK service at the time of account creation.

Kafka Registration PAAS Services 5

Now important menu items we should know before diving into CAK services.

Kafka PAAS Services Menu

SNO	Menu Name	Description
1	Environments	Kafka clusters and distributed elements like Connect, ksqlDB, and Schema Registry are found in an environment. For Confluent Cloud, you can specify numerous environments for a single Organization, and adding more environments is completely free. To prevent interfering with one another, various divisions or teams can use separate environments.
2	Accounts & Access	Managing User Accounts & Service Accounts on this select section
3	Bill Payments	The amount of resources used by your cloud company determines how much Confluent Cloud will charge you. The total quantity of data that is transferred into and out of your cluster, as well as the request overhead incurred by the Kafka protocol, are included in this.
4	Cloud API Keys	Access to Confluent Cloud components and services is controlled by Confluent Cloud API keys. Each API key comprises of a secret as well as a key. For information on using user and service profiles, as well as their possession of API keys.
5	Metrics	Multiple data are gathered from an Apache Kafka® cluster by the Confluent data Reporter.
6	Single sign-on	Using your current SAML-based identity supplier, Confluent Cloud enables single sign-on (SSO).

For numerous independent software platforms, SSO offers access control. SSO eliminates the need for businesses to keep and handle passwords in company databases by enabling enterprise users to log in to numerous, unrelated systems using a single user ID and password. Additionally, SSO enhances security while lessening support and troubleshooting problems related to individual logins.

We can easily on-board new environment in the CAK portal shown below screenshot

On-Boarding a New Environment

Stream governance packages are mandatory to select for data streams moving throughout your cloud environments to work.

Stream governance packages

Select the cloud provider and region where you want the environment Schema Registry and Stream Catalog to run and metadata to be stored.

Select the cloud provider and region

Once the development environment is created, detailed information will be displayed as shown in the below screenshot.

New Environment Details

Now click on the 'Create cluster on my own' button.

Create cluster on my own

Limits & Features by cluster type as shown in the below screenshot.

https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/clusters/cluster-types.html?ajs_aid=abf48b6b-35e4-47e7-98e3-905e78b6a239&ajs_uid=970455#ccloud-features-and-limits-by-cluster-type

Limits & Features by cluster type

While creating a cluster, we need to choose a cloud provider to deploy our Kafka services with the below region details and Available zones are must provide.

choose a cloud provider to deploy our Kafka services

Once the configuration is completed and it will show the complete cluster config details to lunch for our service usage, below screenshot for reference.

the complete cluster config details

Configuration Cost, Usage limits, and Uptime SLA will be shown before launching the new cluster.

Configuration Cost, Usage limits, and Uptime SLA

Confluent Kafka is guaranteed to provide 99.5% SLA for the basic cluster and we can increase the basic cluster to the standard cluster and it will give the best performance.

Basic vs Standard Cluster SLA