 Welcome to this introduction video on Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka, the new managed Kafka offering from Red Hat. In this video, we will show you how you can quickly get started with this new cloud service, which is currently in a no-cost development preview, which means you can get a managed Kafka instance for 48 hours at no cost. To get started, go to cloud.redhat.com and find the Red Hat OpenShift application services style. Click on Login to the console. To access the Red Hat OpenShift application services, you need to be logged in with your Red Hat identity. If you do not have a Red Hat identity yet, you can create one by clicking on the blue Create One Now link at the bottom of the login screen. Simply choose Personal Account as the account type, type in your preferred username, and complete the form with your details. Click Create My Account to create your Red Hat identity. Once you've created your identity, you are redirected to the Red Hat OpenShift application services landing page. Click on the Try OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka button. This will bring you to the OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka UI. You are presented with a tour that describes the service and its development preview limits. There is a second tour available that guides you through these streams for Apache Kafka UI. This tour is accessible from the Resource Center, which you can access by clicking on the light bulb icon at the lower right of your screen. It explains how you can create Kafka instances and Kafka topics, how to manage service accounts, how to download and install the CLI, and how to access the various quick starts and documentation. Click on the Create Kafka Instance button to create your Kafka instance. Before you can create an instance, you need to accept the terms and conditions. You only have to do this the first time you create an OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka instance. Enter a name for your Kafka instance and select your cloud provider and region. For a no-cost development preview offering, we support the option to deploy in AWS US East. Support for other regions and cloud providers will be available soon. Creating your Kafka instance will take a couple of minutes, somewhere between 2 to 5 minutes on average. Once your Kafka instance is ready, you can click on its name to navigate to the Kafka instance view, where you can manage your topics and consumer groups. To create a topic, simply click the Create Topic button. Give your topic a name, configure your topic's partitions and configure the message retention policy. Topic replica configuration defaults to 3 replicas and 2 minimum-insync replicas, and given that OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka is a multi-availability zone deployed service, this means that the service is highly available and resilient against single availability zone outages. Click on Finish to create the topic. This was a short overview on how to get started with Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka. Stay tuned for more information on Kafka and on other Red Hat OpenShift application services offerings.