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.