Creating Your First Event Broker Service

This tutorial shows you how to:

  1. Create an Event Broker Service
  2. Viewing Information About Your Event Broker Services

When you create an event broker service on PubSub+ Cloud we take care of deploying and operating the service so that you that can focus on building client applications to stream events. You create an event broker service using Cluster Manager. After creating the service, you can see the connection details for connecting clients that publish and subscribe events with your service.

To see these steps in action, you can watch the Overview Videos.

Before You Begin

Before you start this tutorial, you must have a PubSub+ Cloud account. If you don't already have one, complete the Accessing PubSub+ Cloud tutorial.

Create an Event Broker Service

After you log into the PubSub+ Cloud Console, you'll see a welcome page with a navigation bar on the left-hand side of the page:

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On the welcome page you'll find Cluster Manager, which is the tool you'll use to create and manage your event broker service. When you launch Cluster Manager, the Services page shows you the event broker services that are available to you. If you're using a new account, there won't be any services. To create an event broker service, perform these steps:

  1. If you aren't logged into PubSub+ Cloud, in a browser, go to the PubSub+ Cloud login page.
  2. In the Cloud Console, click the Cluster Manager card or the icon on the left navigation bar.
  3. On the Services page, in the top-left, select the Default environment to create the event broker service in.
  4. Click Create Service on the top-right corner of the page or click the Create Service card.
  5. In the Service Name field, type "MyFirstService".
  6. In the Cloud list, select a cloud provider. For example, select Google Cloud.

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  7. In the Region list, select a region for the cloud provider you selected. For your first event broker service, choose the region closest to your geographical location. For example, if you live in the United States, choose GKE - US Central (Iowa). The map updates to show the geographic location of the region you select.
  8. In the Broker Release and Broker Version lists, leave the default versions selected.

  9. In Service Type, list select Developer.

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    Service types provide various levels of connections, message spools, and messaging performance. For more information, see PubSub+ Event Broker: Cloud Pricing. If you have a trial account, you will only have access to one Developer service.

  10. Click Create Service to create your first event broker service.

You've now created your first event broker service. Next, we'll take a look at the service's details to find information, such as connection details, for your service.

Viewing Information About Your Event Broker Services

After you click Create Service, the event broker service takes a few minutes to start.

When the service is ready, you can see the following tabs across the top of the page.

  • Status: View the overall status and health of your event broker service. You can also view information such as your event mesh details (if the service is part of an event mesh), the service information such as the cluster name/password, the status of authentication schemes used for the event broker service, and login information. You can also view the expiry date of custom TLS server certificates installed using the v2 REST APIs.

    Server certificate expiration dates on the Status tab of Cluster Manager are only visible for server certificates installed using the v2 REST APIs. Server certificates installed using other methods (for example, CLI or by Solace) may not show a date, or may show an invalid date.

  • Connect: Select a language or protocol to view the connection information for your event broker service.
  • Manage: Perform tasks such as configuring queues and managing clients and access.
  • Monitoring: If you have PubSub+ Insights, you can see advanced visualizations and graphs to manage and understand the performance of your event broker service.
  • Configuration: View the details of the event broker service, such as the cloud provider, region, connection limits, messaging storage, and number of queued messages.
  • Try Me!: View connection details for the Broker Manager Try-Me! tool.

Next Steps

Awesome! You have learned how to create services event broker service and now have a basic understanding of how to find connection information about your service. Want to learn more?