Environments on Confluent Cloud

A Confluent Cloud environment contains Kafka clusters and deployed components, such as Connect, ksqlDB, and Schema Registry. You can define multiple environments in an organization, and there is no charge for creating or using additional environments. Different departments or teams can use separate environments to avoid interfering with each other.

This topic contains steps to manage environments using the Confluent Cloud Console, but you can also use the Confluent CLI confluent environment commands (Confluent CLI reference) or Confluent Cloud APIs to manage environments.

You cannot move cluster deployments between environments. Group all clusters that should share one Schema Registry in the same environment. You can create separate development, test, and production environments to isolate schema iteration in development from the production Schema Registry. There is no enforcement of which Schema Registry the clients of a Kafka cluster must use. For more information on Confluent Cloud Schema Registry, see Work with schemas.

View an environment

To view an environment:

  1. Open the Confluent Cloud Console and go to the Environments page at https://confluent.cloud/environments.
  2. Click on the environment name to view the details of the environment.

Each environment page shows the number of clusters within the environment and provides links to edit or delete the environment.

Add an environment

To add an environment:

  1. Open the Confluent Cloud Console and go to the Environments page at https://confluent.cloud/environments.
  2. Click Add cloud environment.
  3. Enter a name for the environment. The environment name:
    • Cannot exceed 32 characters.
    • Must begin and end with alphanumeric characters.
    • Can contain hyphens and underscores, but cannot contain spaces.
  4. Click Create.

The new environment page appears and you can create a cluster or get started with the Quick Start for Confluent Cloud.

Edit an environment name

To edit an environment name:

  1. Open the Confluent Cloud Console and go to the Environments page at https://confluent.cloud/environments.
  2. Click on the environment that you want to rename or edit the name. The side panel for the environment appears.
  3. In the environment panel, hover over the environment name and then click Edit. The Edit environment dialog appears.
  4. Edit the environment name and then click Save.

The environment name is updated and the page for the environment appears with the updated name.

Delete an environment

You can delete an environment as long as it is not the only environment in your account. If you have only one environment, it cannot be deleted.

Warning

When you delete an environment, the following Confluent Cloud resources within that environment are also deleted:

  • Confluent Cloud clusters
  • Schema Registry
  • Connect connectors
  • ksqlDB clusters
  • Flink compute pools
  • API keys (Note that Flink-related API keys are not deleted because they belong to the Flink region, which is outside of the context of an environment.)

To delete an environment:

  1. Open the Confluent Cloud Console and go to the Environments page at https://confluent.cloud/environments.
  2. Click on the environment you want to delete. The side panel for the environment appears.
  3. In the environment panel, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Delete Environment. A confirmation dialog appears.
  4. Confirm that you want to delete the environment by entering the environment name and then click Continue.

The environment is deleted and all clusters within the environment are deleted. On the Environments page, the deleted environment is no longer displayed.