In this exercise, you will be setting up a Confluent Cloud Cluster that you will be able to use for the rest of the course.
If you don't have a Confluent Cloud account please do so:
Create a Confluent Cloud account : https://confluent.cloud You can use https://temp-mail.org/es/ to generate random emails, please remember the email address.
In this first part we will create a new environment isolated from the rest of the course .
- From the left-hand navigation menu select "Environments".
- Click + Add cloud environment
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Name your environment "governing-streams".
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When offered a choice on which Stream Governance Package to choose, click Begin Configuration under the Essentials option.
- Select which cloud and region you want to create your Schema Registry and Stream Catalog in (i.e. where you will be storing the metadata).
- Inside the governing-streams environment click Create cluster on my own. You'll be given a choice of what kind of cluster to create
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On the next page, choose your cloud provider, region, and availability (zone).
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Next, you will be asked to enter your credit card information. Feel free to choose the "Skip Payment" option at the bottom of the screen.
- Give your cluster a name, and select Launch cluster.