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Managed Service for Apache Kafka
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Choose Managed Service for Apache Kafka or Pub/Sub
Move Kafka data to Google Cloud
Get started
Create and view a cluster
Produce and consume messages with the Kafka command-line tools
Develop a Java producer
Develop a Python producer
Produce Avro messages with the schema registry
Generate synthetic data
Create and manage Kafka clusters
Plan your Kafka cluster size
Configure networking
Create a Kafka cluster
List your Kafka clusters
View a Kafka cluster
Update a Kafka cluster
Delete a Kafka cluster
Topics
Create a Kafka topic
List your Kafka topics
View a Kafka topic
Update a Kafka topic
Delete a Kafka topic
Consumer groups
Overview of Kafka consumer groups
List your Kafka consumer groups
View a Kafka consumer group
Update a Kafka consumer group
Delete a Kafka consumer group
Brokers
Overview
View brokers
Change partition assignment
Use quotas for load isolation
Use the Managed Service for Apache Kafka remote MCP server
Control access
Authenticate to Managed Service for Apache Kafka API
Authenticate to Kafka brokers
Authentication types for Kafka brokers
Authenticate with SASL
Authenticate with mTLS
Access control for Managed Service for Apache Kafka
Access control with Kafka ACLs
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