Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and select Databases.
2. Click Add Managed Database.
3. Choose Apache Kafka® as the database engine.
4. Select the Server Type, Plan, and Brokers.
5. Choose a server location.
6. Select a VPC Network.
7. Enter a label.
8. Review the monthly and hourly cost estimates, and click Deploy Now.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Managed Database Plans endpoint to view all available plans.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases/plans" \
       -X GET \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

2. Send a POST request to the Create Database endpoint to create a new database.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases" \
       -X POST \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
       --data '{
           "database_engine" : "kafka",
           "database_engine_version" : "3.7",
           "plan" : "vultr-dbaas-startup-3x-occ-so-2-30-2",
           "region" : "atl",        
           "label" : "remote-apache-kafka"
       }'
   

   Visit the Create Database endpoint to view additional attributes to add to your request.

3. Send a GET request to the List Managed Databases endpoint to list all databases.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases" \
       -X GET \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Vultr CLI

1. List the available database plans.
   console

   $ vultr-cli database plan list
   

2. Create a new Vultr Managed Apache Kafka® database.
   console

   $ vultr-cli database create --database-engine="kafka" --database-engine-version="3.7" --region="atl"  --plan="vultr-dbaas-startup-3x-occ-so-2-30-2" --label="remote-apache-kafka"
   

3. List all databases.
   console

   $ vultr-cli database list
   

   Run vultr-cli database create --help to view all options.

Terraform

1. Ensure the Vultr Terraform provider is configured in your Terraform project.
2. Define the Managed Apache Kafka® database in your Terraform configuration file.
   terraform

   terraform {
       required_providers {
           vultr = {
               source  = "vultr/vultr"
               version = "~> 2.26"
           }
       }
   }
   
   provider "vultr" {}
   
   resource "vultr_database" "kafka" {
       database_engine         = "kafka"
       database_engine_version = "3.7"
       region                  = "atl"  # e.g., ewr, ams, sgp, atl
       plan                    = "vultr-dbaas-startup-3x-occ-so-2-30-2"
       label                   = "kafka-cluster-1"
   
       # Optional
       # vpc_id      = "<vpc-id>"
       # trusted_ips = ["192.0.2.1", "192.0.2.2"]
   }
   
   output "kafka_host" { value = vultr_database.kafka.host }
   output "kafka_port" { value = vultr_database.kafka.port }
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

   Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.