Chapter 1. Getting started overview
Use Red Hat AMQ Streams to create and set up Kafka clusters, then connect your applications and services to those clusters.
This guide describes how to install and start using AMQ Streams on OpenShift Container Platform. You can install the AMQ Streams operator directly from the OperatorHub in the OpenShift web console. The AMQ Streams operator understands how to install and manage Kafka components. Installing from the OperatorHub provides a standard configuration of AMQ Streams that allows you to take advantage of automatic updates.
When the AMQ Streams operator is installed, it provides the resources to install instances of Kafka components. After installing a Kafka cluster, you can start producing and consuming messages.
If you require more flexibility with your deployment, you can use the installation artifacts provided with AMQ Streams. For more information on using the installation artifacts, see Deploying and Upgrading AMQ Streams on OpenShift.
1.1. Prerequsites
The following prerequisites are required for getting started with AMQ Streams.
- You have a Red Hat account.
- JDK 11 or later is installed.
- An OpenShift 4.10 to 4.13 cluster is available.
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The OpenShift
occommand-line tool is installed and configured to connect to the running cluster.
The steps to get started are based on using the OperatorHub in the OpenShift web console, but you’ll also use the OpenShift oc CLI tool to perform certain operations. You’ll need to connect to your OpenShift cluster using the oc tool.
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You can install the
ocCLI tool from the web console by clicking the'?'help menu, then Command Line Tools. -
You can copy the required
oc logindetails from the web console by clicking your profile name, then Copy login command.
