Deploying Redpanda Kafka-Compatible Streaming Platform on Ubuntu 24.04

Redpanda is a Kafka-API-compatible streaming platform written in C++ with no JVM and no ZooKeeper. This guide installs Redpanda on Ubuntu 24.04, secures it with a Let's Encrypt certificate and SASL/SCRAM authentication, tunes the kernel for production, verifies with a producer/consumer test, and exposes Redpanda Console behind Nginx basic auth. By the end, you'll have a secured, production-tuned single-node Redpanda cluster with a web console.

Prerequisite: Ubuntu 24.04 server sized per Redpanda's CPU/memory requirements, non-root sudo user, and a domain A record (e.g. redpanda.example.com).

Install Redpanda

$ sudo apt update

$ curl -1sLf 'https://dl.redpanda.com/nzc4ZYQK3WRGd9sy/redpanda/cfg/setup/bash.deb.sh' | sudo -E bash