Spin up Apache Kafka on Google Cloud fast – Create, monitor, and resize a cluster

Service overview → https://goo.gle/3JKJ2p0
Quickstart → https://goo.gle/47p1QE5

Learn to create an Apache Kafka cluster easily on Google Cloud. In this 3-minute tutorial of Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka, you’ll see how to create, monitor, and resize a managed Kafka cluster.

We’ll click through the console, show built-in metrics, then scale the cluster up live. Grab the quickstart below and try it yourself. Happy coding!

Chapters:
00:00 – What you’ll learn (create → monitor → resize)
00:13 – Service overview & where to find it in the console
00:37 – Create a managed Kafka cluster
01:37 – Understanding a cluster’s details
02:00 – Monitor: topics, partitions, metrics & alerts
02:13 – Resize: scale brokers/partitions without downtime
02:30 – Next steps & docs

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