Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Cluster Configuration

Before creating the cluster, you need to create a new cluster configuration file or use an existing one in Streaming with Apache Kafka..

A default configuration is provided when you create a Kafka cluster. You can use that or create a custom one.

If you choose to use a custom configuration, we recommend you create the cluster configuration file before creating the Kafka cluster. After a Kafka cluster is created, you can still update the cluster configuration file, but with certain limitations.

  • This task can't be performed using the Console. But, you can provide the cluster configuration when creating a cluster using the Console.

  • Use the cluster-config create command and required parameters to create the configuration file for a Kafka cluster:

    oci kafka cluster-config create 
-c <compartment-ocid>  
--latest-config '{"properties":{"<key1>":"<value1>","<key2>":"<value2>"}}'

    As a best practice, you can create a configuration file config_name.properties with all the required property key-value pairs and then provide this file to the cluster-config create command: 

    oci kafka cluster-config create -c <compartment-ocid> --latest-config <file-name>

    For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

  • Run the CreateKafkaClusterConfig operation to create a cluster configuration file.