# Redpanda rpk CLI Surface

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-rpk-api/  
**Provider:** Redpanda — https://apis.io/providers/redpanda/

Redpanda rpk CLI Surface is one of 10 APIs that [Redpanda](https://apis.io/providers/redpanda/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include CLI and rpk. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

rpk is the Redpanda command-line tool, wrapping the Kafka, Admin, Schema Registry, and Cloud APIs into operator-friendly commands for deployment, configuration, topic management, ACLs, and benchmarking.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/rpk/
- **Source** — https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda

## Other Redpanda APIs (9)

- [Redpanda Kafka API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-kafka-api/)
- [Redpanda Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-admin-api/)
- [Redpanda Schema Registry API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-schema-registry-api/)
- [Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-http-proxy-api/)
- [Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-cloud-control-plane-api/)
- [Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-cloud-data-plane-api/)
- [Redpanda Console API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-console-api/)
- [Redpanda Connect (Benthos) API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-connect-api/)
- [Redpanda Iceberg Topic API](https://apis.io/apis/redpanda/redpanda-iceberg-topic-api/)

## Tags

CLI, rpk

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