Event Streams on the Standard Plan with Private Endpoints and Topics with Retention
An IBM Cloud Event Streams (Kafka) instance on the standard multi-tenant plan (enterprise is a dedicated cluster and a purchase), with the brokers on private endpoints only (public by name), and topics from a map with partitions, retention in hours and a cleanup policy, a week and three partitions by default. Producer and consumer credentials are a separate resource.
Verification
Static-verifiedPassed: validated and lint-clean (provider-schema-validated for AWS/Azure/GCP; Terraform-language lint elsewhere).
Conformance
- Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
- No applicable security policies for this provider
- Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)
Provenance
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Functional
- Live test pending (no cloud run yet)
Last verified 2026-09-15 · how we verify
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terraform · opentofumodule "event_streams" {
source = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/ibm-event-streams/ibmcloud"
version = "1.0.0"
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Documentation
ibm-event-streams
Event Streams (Kafka) on the standard plan with private endpoints and
topics whose retention you chose. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu
(>= 1.6), ibm provider >= 1.60, < 3.0.
The instance is the cluster and the bill; standard here.
Private endpoints; public by name.
A topic with no retention keeps everything; a week by default.
Verification
Static validation runs tofu fmt, init, validate, tflint and checkov.
This module has not yet had a live test, so it is published as statically
validated with its live test pending and does not carry the live-tested mark.
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