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# Quick Start for BYOC Latency Optimized Cluster
StreamNative Cloud is a resilient, scalable, data streaming service , delivered as a fully managed Pulsar and Kafka service.
StreamNative Cloud provides multiple interfaces for management and interaction:
1. **StreamNative Cloud Console**: A user-friendly web-based interface for managing cluster resources, configuring settings, and handling billing.
2. **Command-Line Interface (CLI)**:
* [StreamNative CLI (`snctl`)](/tools/cli/snctl/snctl-overview): The unified command-line interface for deploying and managing StreamNative Cloud infrastructure and interacting directly with your Pulsar clusters and Kafka-protocol endpoints.
* [Pulsar CLI (`pulsarctl`)](/tools/cli/pulsarctl/pulsarctl-overview): For managing cluster-specific resources, such as tenants, namespaces, topics, functions, connectors, and more.
3. **REST APIs**: For programmatic access and integration with other systems.
* [StreamNative Cloud API](/api-references/cloudapi/cloud-api)
* [Pulsar Admin REST API](https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/admin-api-overview/)
* [Kafka Admin API](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#adminapi)
4. **Terraform Providers**:
* [StreamNative Terraform Provider](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/streamnative/streamnative/latest/docs)
* [Pulsar Terraform Provider](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/streamnative/pulsar/latest/docs)
These tools provide flexibility in how you interact with and manage your StreamNative Cloud environment, catering to different user preferences and use cases.
[Sign up for StreamNative Cloud](https://console.streamnative.cloud/?defaultMethod=signup) and get \$200 of free credits. No credit card required.
This quick start guides you through getting started with StreamNative [BYOC](/cloud/clusters/cluster-types#byoc-clusters). It demonstrates how to use a StreamNative BYOC cluster to create topics, produce data to the cluster, and consume data from it.
This QuickStart assumes you are familiar with the [basics concepts of StreamNative Cloud Clusters](/cloud/clusters/streamnative-cluster-overview).
## Prerequisites
* Access to [StreamNative Cloud](https://console.streamnative.cloud/?defaultMethod=signup).
* Internet connectivity.
* Access to Your AWS Account for provisioning the BYOC infrastructure.
* Ensure you have installed Python 3.0 or higher versions and the Pulsar Python client.
```bash theme={null}
python -m pip install pulsar-client
```
## Step 1: Sign up
If you have an email account configured for using Single Sign-On (SSO) with StreamNative Cloud, use that email address and password when signing up.
To sign up, navigate to the [StreamNative Cloud Console signup page](https://console.streamnative.cloud/?defaultMethod=signup). Follow the prompts to create an account.
After you click **Finish**, you might have to wait briefly for your first organization to be created. After your new organization is created, continue on to creating your first instance and cluster.
## Step 2: Grant StreamNative Vendor Access
Before deploying a StreamNative cluster within your cloud account, you must first grant StreamNative vendor access. Follow the instructions in [Account Access for BYOC on AWS](/cloud/clusters/byoc/grant-vendor-access/byoc-on-aws/byoc-aws-access#provision-aws-access) to provision AWS access for StreamNative Cloud. This step ensures StreamNative has the necessary permissions to manage resources in your AWS account.
Once completed, please note the account ID of the AWS account you have granted access to StreamNative Cloud. You will use this account ID to create a Cloud Connection.
## Step 3: Create a Cloud Connection
1. In the upper-right corner of the StreamNative Cloud Console, click your Profile and select **Cloud Environments**.
2. Select **Cloud Connections** tab and click **New Cloud Connection**.
3. In the **Create connection** dialog, enter the following information:
* **Name**: Enter a name for the cloud connection. For example, `my-aws-connection`.
* **Connection provider**: Select **AWS** as the connection provider.
* **AWS Account ID**: Enter the account ID of the AWS account you noted in the previous step.
* Check **Confirm if vendor access Terraform module is executed**.
4. Click **Submit**.
5. The cloud connection creation process will start. Once completed, you can see the status of the cloud connection turned to `Connected` in the **Cloud Connections** tab.
## Step 4: Create a Cloud Environment
Once you have created a cloud connection, you can create a cloud environment and provision a BYOC instance.
1. Navigate to [Organization Dashboard](/cloud/get-started/cloud-console#organization-dashboard).
2. Select **Instances** at the left navigation pane.
3. On the **Instances** page, click **+ New Instance**.
4. On the **Choose the deployment type for your instance** page, click **Deploy BYOC**.
5. You will see a dialog "Cloud Environment required". Click **Create** button to create a cloud environment.
6. On the **Cloud Connection** page, select the cloud connection you created in the previous step. In this case, it is `my-aws-connection`. Then click **Environment setup**.
7. Then fill out the information for the cloud environment.
* **Region**: Select the region where you want to deploy the BYOC cluster. In this example, it is `us-west-2`.
* **Environment tag**: Enter a tag for the cloud environment. For example, `poc`.
* **Configure StreamNative Managed VPC Network**:
* **Network CIDR**: By default, it creates a StreamNative Managed VPC with a CIDR of `10.0.0.0/16`. If you need to specify a different CIDR, you can enter it here.
* **Default Gateway**: You can configure how do you want to expose your BYOC cluster, whether it is **public** or **private**. By default, it is **public**.
8. Click **Create**.
The provisioning process of a cloud environment usually takes about 40 minutes to complete. You can safely close the page and come back later. You will also receive an email notification when the cloud environment is ready.
For more information about provisioning BYOC infrastructure, see [Provision BYOC Infrastructure](/cloud/clusters/byoc/byoc-overview).
## Step 5: Create a StreamNative Instance & Cluster
Once the cloud environment is ready, you can create a Pulsar instance.
1. Navigate to [Organization Dashboard](/cloud/get-started/cloud-console#organization-dashboard).
2. Select **Instances** at the left navigation pane.
3. On the **Instances** page, click **+ New Instance**.
4. On the **Choose the deployment type for your instance** page, click **Deploy BYOC** again. You will not see the dialog "Cloud Environment required" this time.
5. On the **Instance Configuration** page, fill out the information for the Pulsar instance. Then, click **Cluster Location** to start the cluster creation process.
* **Instance Name**: Enter a name for the Pulsar instance. For example, `my-pulsar-instance`.
* **Cloud Connection**: Select the cloud connection you created in the previous step. In this example, it is `my-aws-connection`.
6. On the **Cluster Location** page, fill out the information for the cluster.
* **Cluster Name**: Enter a name for the cluster. For example, `my-byoc-cluster`.
* **Cloud Environment**: Select the cloud environment you created in the previous step. In this example, it is `aws-usw2-poc-`.
* **Cluster Profile**: Select the cluster profile. In this example, it is 'Latency Optimized'
* **Availability Zone**: Select the Availability Zone. In this example, it is 'Multi AZ'
7. Click **Cluster Operations** to choose the release channel for the cluster and configure the cluster.
* **Release Channel**: Select the release channel for the cluster. In this example, it is `LTS`.
* **Features**: Select the features for the cluster. You can keep the default features or customize it.
* **Maintenance Window**: If you have a Enterprise or Production support plan, you can customize the maintenance window for the cluster. Otherwise, you can skip this step.
* **Custom Configuration**: If you need to customize the cluster configuration, you can expand the **Add optional custom configuration** section.
8. Click **Cluster Size** to configure the cluster size.
* You can use the slider to adjust the throughput accordingly.
* You can also manually configure the number of brokers, bookies, and their corresponding resources in the **Advanced** section.
At the right navigation pane, you can see the estimated cost for the cluster.
9. Click **Finish** to start the cluster creation process.
The cluster page appears, displaying the cluster creation process. Depending on the chosen cloud provider and other settings, it may take several minutes to provision the cluster.
Once the cluster has been provisioned, the page will show "Cluster Provisioned successfully" and you can click **Go To The Dashboard** to access the **Cluster Dashboard** page.
Now you can get started configuring apps and data on your new cluster.
## Step 6: Create a service account
To interact with your cluster by producing and consuming messages, you need to set up authentication and authorization. This is done by creating a [Service Account](/cloud/security/authentication/service-accounts/service-accounts), which serves as an identity for authenticating and authorizing access to the cluster. The service account will provide the necessary credentials for your applications to securely connect and perform operations on the Pulsar cluster.
1. In the upper-right corner of the StreamNative Cloud Console, click your Profile and select **Accounts & Accesses**.
2. On the left navigation pane, click **Service Accounts**.
3. On the **Service Account** page, click **+ New**.
4. On the **Create Service Account** dialog, enter a name for the service account, and then click **Confirm**.
5. On the **Service Account** page, in the row of the service account you just created, click the **...** icon, and select **Create API Key** in the dropdown menu.
6. On the **New API Key** dialog:
* Enter a name for the API key
* Set the expiration date
* Select the instance you created in previous step
* Write a description for the API key
* Click **Confirm**
An API key and associated secret apply to the active StreamNative instance. If you add a new instance, you must create a new API key for producers and consumers on the new Pulsar instance. For more information, see [Use API Keys to Authenticate to StreamNative Cloud](/cloud/security/authentication/service-accounts/use-api-keys/api-keys-overview).
7. After the API key is created, you can see the API key shown in the **New API Key** dialog. Click the **Copy and close** button to copy the API key to your clipboard. **Please note that you cannot retrieve the API key later after closing the dialog.**
## Step 7: Create Tenant and Namespace, and Authorize the Service Account
After creating the service account and obtaining the API key, the next crucial step is to authorize the service account. This process grants the necessary permissions for the service account to interact with your StreamNative Cloud cluster.
Authorization involves setting up Access Control Lists (ACLs) that define what actions the service account can perform. Typically, you'll want to grant permissions for producing and consuming messages on specific topics or namespaces.
For more information about authorization, see [Authorization and ACLs](/cloud/security/access/access-control-lists/authorization-and-acls).
1. Go back to the **Cluster Dashboard** page.
2. On the left navigation pane, click **Instances**.
3. On the **Instances** page, click the name of the instance you created in Step 2.
4. On the **Cluster Dashboard** page, click **Tenants** on the left navigation pane.
5. On the **Tenants** page, click **+ New Tenant**.
6. On the **New Tenant** dialog:
* Enter a name for the tenant
* Select your user account as the **Admin role**
* Select the cluster created in Step 2 as **Allowed clusters**
* Click **Confirm**
7. On the **Tenants** page, click the name of the tenant you just created. You will be directed to the **Tenant Dashboard** page.
8. On the **Tenant Dashboard** page, click **Namespaces** on the left navigation pane.
9. On the **Namespaces** page, click **New Namespace**.
10. On the **New Namespace** dialog:
* Enter a name for the namespace
* Select the cluster created in Step 2 as **Allowed clusters** and **Replication clusters**
* Click **Confirm**
11. On the **Namespaces** page, click the name of the namespace you just created. You will be directed to the **Namespace Dashboard** page.
12. On the **Namespace Dashboard** page, click **Configuration** on the left navigation pane.
13. On the **Namespace configuration** page, click **ADD ROLE**. Select the name of the service account you just created, and choose the **consume** and **produce** permissions. This grants your service account the `produce` and `consume` permissions for this namespace.
Now you have created a tenant, namespace, and granted the service account the `produce` and `consume` permissions for this namespace. You can now continue on to building a Python app, connecting to the cluster, and producing and consuming messages.
## Step 8: Produce and consume messages
This QuickStart provides you with an example Python app to get you up and running with consuming and producing messages. This is a simple example and is not intended for production environments.
### Create a producer/consumer
1. Return to the StreamNative Cloud Console and go to the "Cluster Dashboard" page.
2. On the left navigation pane, click **Pulsar Clients**.
3. On the **Pulsar client setup** page, click the **Code libraries** tab, follow the setup wizard to get the sample codes for your producer and consumer.
a. Select **Python** as the client library and click **Next**.
b. Select the service account you created and click **Next**.
c. Select **API Key** as the authentication type and click **Next**.
d. Install `pulsar-client` python client library.
```bash theme={null}
pip3 install pulsar-client
```
e. Select the target tenant, namespace, topic, and subscription.
f. You are now ready to copy the auto-generated sample codes.
4. Return to your text editor and create two new files: `producer.py` and `consumer.py`. Copy and paste the sample code for the producer into `producer.py` and the sample code for the consumer into `consumer.py`. In both files, replace **``** with the API key you copied from the Service Account page.
### Run the clients to produce and consume your first message
1. Open a terminal window, navigate to the folder containing the `consumer.py` file, and run the following command:
```bash theme={null}
python3 consumer.py
```
2. Open a second terminal window, navigate to the folder containing the `producer.py` file, and run the following command:
```bash theme={null}
python3 producer.py
```
3. Return to the first terminal window. You should see the following:
```bash theme={null}
Received message 'Hello-0' id=''
Received message 'Hello-1' id=''
Received message 'Hello-2' id=''
Received message 'Hello-3' id=''
Received message 'Hello-4' id=''
Received message 'Hello-5' id=''
Received message 'Hello-6' id=''
Received message 'Hello-7' id=''
Received message 'Hello-8' id=''
Received message 'Hello-9' id=''
```
You have now produced and consumed your first 10 messages.
## Next steps
* After you have successfully provisioned a **BYOC** cluster and connected to the cluster, you can learn more about working with StreamNative Cloud by reading through [Cloud Console basics](/cloud/get-started/cloud-console).
* If you want to learn more about Pulsar, Kafka, and StreamNative Cloud, take our developer courses at the [StreamNative Developer Portal](https://streamnative.io/dev-portal).