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Get started with Aiven

Aiven provides managed open source services for streaming, databases, and applications across major cloud platforms. All services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external third-party tools.

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Try the Aiven Platform for free​

The Aiven Platform streamlines your operations by centralizing your cloud infrastructure, security, and observability in one unified control plane. You can access the platform through the Aiven Console, Aiven API, Aiven Provider for Terraform, Aiven CLI, and Aiven Operator for Kubernetes®.

Aiven offers free plans and 30-day trials for you to explore the platform and services.

Aiven services are also available on the AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud marketplaces.

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First steps​

Set up your organization and create your first service.

Step 1: Set up billing​

Billing overview
Learn how billing and payments work.
Create a payment method
Add a credit card to pay for your Aiven services.
Configure your billing group
Add your payment method and other details to the default billing group.

Step 2: Set up your organization​

Organizations overview
Learn about organizing your resources with organizations, units, and projects.
Optional: Create organizational units
Use units to group your Aiven projects.
Create projects
Create projects in your organization or units to hold your Aiven services.
Organization setup with Terraform
Follow an example to set up your organization using the Aiven Provider for Terraform.

Step 3: Manage organization users​

Start collaborating by adding users to your organization, creating groups, and assigning them to projects. You can add users manually to your organization or create managed users through your identity provider (IdP).

Add users to your organization​

Invite users to your organization
Email your team invites to join your organization on Aiven.

Set up user groups​

Add users to groups to streamline access management to your Aiven projects and services.

Create groups
Create and add users to groups.
Give groups acess to projects
Grant roles and permissions to a group of users to access a project and its services.
Create and assign groups with Terraform
Follow an example to create a user group and give it access to a project.

Step 4: Secure your organization​

Configure an authentication policy
Determine how your organization users log in and use tokens.
Permissions and roles
Learn how access is controlled at the organization, project, and service level.
Manage organization admin
Control who can manage the organization, its billing, and all projects.
Application users
Learn how application users provide more secure programmatic access to the Aiven Platform.
Create application users
Use application users to access the Aiven API, Terraform Provider, CLI, and Kubernetes Operator.
Create a virtual private cloud
Connect private networks with each other without going through the public internet.

Step 5: Create your first service​

Start deploying services in your project to stream, store, or analyze your data.

Create a service in the Aiven Console​

View all services
Choose a service to learn more about it.
Create a service
Create your first Aiven service.
Manage your services
Learn about backups, maintenance, service resources, and more.

Create a service using the dev tools​

The get started guide for each service includes examples for creating a service using the Aiven Provider for Terraform.

You can try out more service and integration examples using code samples for the Aiven Terraform Provider or Aiven Operator for Kubernetes®.

Aiven Provider for Terraform examples
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Aiven Operator for Kubernetes® examples

Create a service using the Aiven CLI or API.

Aiven CLI
Aiven API

Next steps​

Explore Aiven Console
Read about cloud security
Integrate your services