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# Kafka Setup Guide

If looking to try out without an already setup Kafka endpoint, [see Redpanda quickstart,](https://docs.redpanda.com/current/get-started/quick-start) by default no authentication is necessary.

To get the above redpanda container to work with PeerDB on OSS, you can first add it to the PeerDB containers' network:

```bash theme={null}
# container id of redpanda-0
docker network connect peerdb_network $(docker container ls -qf "name=redpanda-0")

# container id of redpanda-console
docker network connect peerdb_network $(docker container ls -qf "name=redpanda-console")
```

And then in UI you can create the Kafka peer like so:

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/peerdb/wtgPI5cQwjI2FO0m/images/setup/redpeer.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=wtgPI5cQwjI2FO0m&q=85&s=74b84f612d943d1ef1ea469d794f4875" alt="create kafka peer ui" width="1730" height="1098" data-path="images/setup/redpeer.png" />

PeerDB only supports plaintext and SASL authentication. If username isn't supplied then PeerDB will attempt to connect without authentication.

Multiple servers can be specified as a comma separated list.

Partitioner can be usually be ignored; it maps to partitioning strategies in [franz-go.](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/twmb/franz-go/pkg/kgo#Partitioner) To set partitioning keys you'll need to specify `Script` when creating mirror, see [Lua reference](https://docs.peerdb.io/lua/reference) for details.