Redpanda

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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.

Table of Contents

• Get started
• Prebuilt packages
• Debian/Ubuntu
• Fedora/RedHat/Amazon Linux
• macOS
• Other Linux environments
• Build manually
• Release candidate builds
• RC releases on Debian/Ubuntu
• RC releases on Fedora/RedHat/Amazon Linux
• RC releases on Docker
• Community
• Resources

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

Download the rpk binary here. Docker is required on MacOS.

brew install redpanda-data/tap/redpanda && rpk container start

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

Resources

• Redpanda Documentation
• Redpanda Blog
• Upcoming Redpanda Events
• Redpanda Support
• Redpanda University