Redpanda
Redpanda is the most complete, Apache Kafka®-compatible streaming data platform, designed from the ground up to be lighter, faster, and simpler to operate. Free from ZooKeeper™ and JVMs, it prioritizes an end-to-end developer experience with a huge ecosystem of connectors, configurable tiered storage, and more.
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Get started
Prebuilt packages
Redpanda Data recommends using the following free, prebuilt stable releases.
Debian/Ubuntu
curl -1sLf \
'https://linux.pkg.redpanda.com/setup-redpanda.deb.sh' \
| sudo -E bash
sudo apt-get install redpanda
Fedora/RedHat/Amazon Linux
curl -1sLf \
'https://linux.pkg.redpanda.com/setup-redpanda.rpm.sh' \
| sudo -E bash
sudo yum install redpanda
macOS
Docker is required on MacOS.
brew install redpanda-data/tap/redpanda && rpk container start
rpk binaries
Prebuilt rpk binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows (amd64 and arm64) are
published at https://rpk.redpanda.com/<release>/rpk-<os>-<arch>.zip, where
<release> is a version tag such as v26.2.4, or latest for the newest
stable release.
# latest stable release
curl -LO https://rpk.redpanda.com/latest/rpk-linux-amd64.zip
curl -LO https://rpk.redpanda.com/latest/rpk-darwin-arm64.zip
curl -LO https://rpk.redpanda.com/latest/rpk-windows-amd64.zip
# a specific release
curl -LO https://rpk.redpanda.com/v26.2.4/rpk-linux-arm64.zip
# SHA256 checksums (note: no `v` in the file name)
curl -LO https://rpk.redpanda.com/v26.2.4/rpk_26.2.4_checksums.txt
# SHA256 checksums for latest, without the version in the file name
curl -LO https://rpk.redpanda.com/latest/rpk_checksums.txt
Available files per release: rpk-linux-amd64.zip, rpk-linux-arm64.zip,
rpk-darwin-amd64.zip, rpk-darwin-arm64.zip, rpk-windows-amd64.zip,
rpk-windows-arm64.zip and rpk_<version>_checksums.txt. latest/ also
carries the checksums as rpk_checksums.txt.
Other Linux environments
To install from a .tar.gz archive, download the file and extract it into /opt/redpanda.
For amd64:
curl -LO https://vectorized-public.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/redpanda/25.2.7/redpanda-25.2.7-amd64.tar.gz
For arm64:
curl -LO https://vectorized-public.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/releases/redpanda/25.2.7/redpanda-25.2.7-arm64.tar.gz
Replace 25.2.7 with the version you want to download. See Release Notes for available releases.
Build Manually
Redpanda Data uses Bazel as the build system. Bazel automatically manages most of the toolchains and third-party dependencies.
We rely on bazelisk to get the right version of bazel needed for the build. You can for example install it as follows and add it to your $PATH (or use one of the other suggested ways from their repo).
wget -O ~/bin/bazel https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/releases/latest/download/bazelisk-linux-amd64 && chmod +x ~/bin/bazel
There are a few system libraries and preinstalled tools our build assumes are available locally. To bootstrap and build redpanda along with all its tests.
sudo ./bazel/install-deps.sh bazel build --config=release //...
For more build configurations, see .bazelrc.
Release candidate builds
Redpanda Data creates a release candidate (RC) build when we get close to a new release, and we publish it to make new features available for testing. RC builds are not recommended for production use.
RC releases on Debian/Ubuntu
curl -1sLf \ 'https://linux.pkg.redpanda.com/setup-redpanda-unstable.deb.sh' \ | sudo -E bash sudo apt-get install redpanda
RC releases on Fedora/RedHat/Amazon Linux
curl -1sLf \ 'https://linux.pkg.redpanda.com/setup-redpanda-unstable.rpm.sh' \ | sudo -E bash sudo yum install redpanda
RC releases on Docker
Example with v25.1.1-rc1:
docker pull docker.redpanda.com/redpandadata/redpanda-unstable:v25.1.1-rc1
Community
- Slack: This is the primary way the community interacts in real time. :)
- Github Discussions: This is for longer, async, thoughtful discussions.
- GitHub Issues: This is reserved only for actual issues. Please use the mailing list for discussions.
- Code of Conduct
- Contribute to the Code