Kafka - Getting started
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25.08.2025 
Kafka
Kafka on OVHcloud is a fully managed, distributed data-streaming platform available through OVHcloud’s Public Cloud. Built on the open-source strength of Apache Kafka, it’s crafted for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer, streaming analytics, and high-throughput pipelines. Your data is stored in organized topics and partitions, enabling OVHcloud to handle multiple simultaneous data flows with scalability and resilience. With intuitive management via the OVHcloud Control Panel (or API/Terraform), you can provision, configure, and deploy Kafka clusters in minutes, offloading infrastructure management and keeping focus squarely on your data-driven use cases.
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Discover how OVHcloud's Managed Apache Kafka® service lets you deploy and manage full Apache Kafka clusters within the Public Cloud complete with scalable topics and partitions, integrated tools like Schema Registry and high availability, plus support for Terraform, private networking, and competitive pay-as-you-go pricing at: Kafka product page
Pricing
Explore a comprehensive breakdown of OVHcloud’s Public Cloud pricing, where you’ll find detailed hourly and monthly rates across services like virtual instances, managed databases, streaming and analytics tools—including plans for Kafka at: Kafka pricing
Capabilities
Discover the technical capabilities and limitations of OVHcloud's managed Apache Kafka with detailed guidance on supported versions, resource limits, networking, logging, topics, users, and much more—on this support page: Kafka capabilities and limitations
Create a cluster
Explore step-by-step instructions on how to create a managed Kafka database cluster on OVHcloud Public Cloud via the Control Panel, datacentre selection, plan, instance configuration, storage sizing, and cluster setup options at: Create a Kafka cluster
Configure cluster for incoming connections
Explore practical guidance on how to configure your OVHcloud Public Cloud Kafka cluster to accept incoming connections covering access setup via the control panel or API and essential network settings at: Configure Kafka cluster connections
Go further
Some UI tools for Kafka are also available:
Visit the Github examples repository to find how to connect to your database with several languages.
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