Overview

This document describes how to create an instance and deploy a VPC via the CKafka console.

Prerequisites

• You have signed up for a Tencent Cloud account.
• You have created a VPC.

Directions

1. Log in to the CKafka console.
2. Choose Instance List in the left sidebar, click Create to go to the instance purchase page, and enter the purchase information as needed.
   • Billing Mode: monthly subscription
   • Specs Type: select the Standard or Pro edition based on your business needs.
   • Kafka Version: select a Kafka version based on your business needs. For more information, please see Suggestions for CKafka Edition Selection.
   • Region: select a region close to the resource for client deployment.
   • AZ:
     • Standard Edition: does not support multi-AZ deployment.
     • Pro Edition: if the current region supports multi-AZ deployment, you can select up to 2 AZs for deployment. For more information on multi-AZ deployment, please see Multi-AZ Deployment.
   • Product Specification: select a model based on the peak bandwidth and disk capacity.
   • Message Retention: select a value between 24 and 2160 hours.
     When the disk capacity is insufficient (i.e., the disk utilization reaches 90%), old messages will be deleted in advance to ensure the service availability.
   • VPC: select the created VPC.
   • Instance name: when purchasing multiple instances, you can batch create instances by its numeric suffix (which is numbered in an ascending order) or its designated pattern string. For specific operations, please see Naming with Consecutive Numeric Suffixes or Designated Pattern String.
3. Click Buy Now. The instance created is displayed in the instance list in about 3-5 minutes.