confluent/

Confluent CLI

Confluent

Command line interface for managing Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform (Apache Kafka).

Messaging & StreamingJSON

docs repo .json

01Install

brew install confluentinc/tap/cli

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02Agent Notes

confluent CLI manages Confluent Cloud and Platform. `confluent kafka topic create/list/describe`. Use `-o json` for structured output. Set environment and cluster context with `confluent environment use` and `confluent kafka cluster use`.

03Global Flags

Flag	Type	Description
`-o/--output`	enum [json, human]	Output format
`--environment`	string	Environment ID to target
`--cluster`	string	Kafka cluster ID to target

04Authentication

Methods

access-tokenconfig-file

Env vars

CONFLUENT_CLOUD_API_KEYCONFLUENT_CLOUD_API_SECRET

Setupconfluent login

Docsdocs.confluent.io/confluent-cli/current/connect.html

05Capabilities

Event Streaming Message Queues

Reference

binaryconfluent

checkconfluent version

authaccess-token, config-file

formatshuman

json flag-o json

version4.54.0