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# Configure Message Rest API

StreamNative Private Cloud supports a RESTful messaging interface to Pulsar clusters. You can produce and consume messages without using the native Pulsar protocol or clients.

The Rest API supports both non-partitioned and partitioned topics as well as basic and Avro base struct schema.

Example use cases include:

* Send data to Pulsar from any frontend application built in any language
* Integrate Pulsar with existing automation tools
* Ingest Pulsar data into corporate dashboards and monitoring systems
* Provide instant access to data in motion for data scientist notebooks
* Ingest messages into a stream processing framework that may not support Pulsar

## Enable Message Rest API

To use Message Rest API on StreamNative Private Cloud, you need to configure on the `PulsarBroker` CR:

```yaml theme={null}
spec:
  config:
    pulsarRestMessagingServiceEnabled: true
```

<Note title="Note">
  The message Rest API is enabled on the Pulsar broker. To access the message Rest API outside a Kubernetes cluster, you need to expose the Pulsar proxy service and access the exposed proxy endpoint. The Pulsar proxy will forward the message Rest API requests to the Pulsar broker.
</Note>

## Related topics

* [Message Rest API reference](/private-cloud/v2/configure-private-cloud/protocols/private-cloud-restapi-reference)