Jikkou Tutorials

Learn common Jikkou tasks and use cases.

These hands-on tutorials teach Jikkou by doing. Work through them in order — each one builds on the last. For solving a specific problem you already understand, see the How-to Guides instead.

  1. Getting Started — install Jikkou, connect to a cluster, and manage your first topics.
  2. Preview Changes and Detect Drift — learn how reconciliation works with diff and --dry-run.
  3. Generate Topics with Templates — produce many resources from a small values file using Jinja templating.

Jikkou Getting Started

This guide covers how you can quickly get started using Jikkou.

Preview Changes and Detect Drift

Learn how Jikkou reconciles desired state with reality — preview changes with diff, apply safely with dry-run, and detect configuration drift.

Generate Topics with Templates

Learn Jikkou’s Jinja templating by generating many Kafka topics from a small values file.