Confluent Cloud API

Name: Confluent Cloud API API
Brand: Confluent Cloud API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentCloud InfrastructureComputebasic, bearer68 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Provision and manage Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters, topics, service accounts, role bindings, and connectors. Useful for agents that automate streaming infrastructure provisioning and access control.

Quickstart

Get started with Confluent Cloud API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"create a confluent cloud api key"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Confluent Cloud API API.

Provision a Cloud API key for a service account so a workload can publish to Kafka

Invite a new user into a Confluent Cloud organization with a scoped role

Create a service account and bind it to an environment-scoped role

List role bindings to audit who has admin or writer access on a cluster

GET STARTED

Start building with Confluent Cloud API API

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Use for: Create a new Confluent Cloud API key for a service account, List all role bindings on the production environment, Invite a new teammate to the Confluent Cloud organization, Provision a service account named ingest-pipeline

Not supported: Does not handle Kafka topic publish/consume traffic, schema registry data plane reads, or ksqlDB query execution — use for Confluent Cloud control-plane management only.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Confluent Cloud API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Confluent Cloud API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Confluent Cloud REST API lets developers and AI agents provision and manage Apache Kafka clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, role bindings, connectors, and organization settings on Confluent's managed Kafka platform. It exposes 68 endpoints across IAM, Kafka, Connect, Cluster Management, and Organization resource groups. Authentication is HTTP Basic with a Cloud API key/secret pair, or OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens for federated access.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Confluent Cloud API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Provision Streaming Workload Credentials

When a new microservice needs to publish to Kafka, an agent calls POST /iam/v2/service_accounts to create a service account and POST /iam/v2/api_keys to mint a Cloud API key bound to that account. The key is then handed to the workload's secret manager. This replaces a multi-hour manual provisioning ticket with a self-service flow that finishes in under a minute.

Call POST /iam/v2/service_accounts with display_name ingest-pipeline, then POST /iam/v2/api_keys with that service account ID and store the returned key/secret in the deployment secret store.

Access Audit and Right-Sizing

Pull every role binding in an organization to answer who has access to which environment or cluster. The agent calls GET /iam/v2/role_bindings, joins the result against GET /iam/v2/users and GET /iam/v2/service_accounts, and produces a CSV of principal, role, and resource. This is the same evidence package most SOC 2 auditors ask for, generated on demand instead of through manual screenshots.

Page through GET /iam/v2/role_bindings and join with GET /iam/v2/users to produce a confluent-rbac-2026-q2.csv with columns principal_email, role, crn_pattern.

Onboarding and Offboarding Automation

Tie Confluent Cloud user lifecycle to your IdP. On hire, an agent calls POST /iam/v2/invitations with the new user's email and the appropriate role. On termination, the agent looks up the user via GET /iam/v2/users and DELETEs them along with any API keys that have them as the owner. This keeps Kafka access in line with the rest of the identity perimeter without an admin clicking through the cloud console.

On termination of user 12345, call GET /iam/v2/api_keys?spec.owner=u-12345, DELETE each returned key, then DELETE /iam/v2/users/12345.

AI Agent Cluster Operations via Jentic

Let an SRE assistant answer Confluent Cloud questions and take simple actions in chat. The agent searches Jentic for create confluent cloud api key, loads the operation schema, and executes it with the Cloud API key/secret kept in the Jentic vault. The same wrapper covers IAM, role bindings, and cluster reads, so the assistant becomes a thin layer over the Confluent Cloud control plane.

Through Jentic, search create confluent cloud api key, load the POST /iam/v2/api_keys schema, and execute it for service account sa-ingest in the production environment.

Key Endpoints

68 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for confluent cloud api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/iam/v2/api_keys

Create a Cloud API key

GET

/iam/v2/api_keys

List Cloud API keys

POST

/iam/v2/service_accounts

Create a service account

POST

/iam/v2/invitations

Invite a user to the organization

GET

/iam/v2/role_bindings

List role bindings for audit

POST

/iam/v2/role_bindings

Grant a role binding

DELETE

/iam/v2/api_keys/{api_key_id}

Revoke a Cloud API key

POST

/iam/v2/api_keys

Create a Cloud API key

GET

/iam/v2/api_keys

List Cloud API keys

POST

/iam/v2/service_accounts

Create a service account

POST

/iam/v2/invitations

Invite a user to the organization

GET

/iam/v2/role_bindings

List role bindings for audit

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Confluent Cloud API key/secret pairs and Bearer tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents call operations through scoped Jentic tokens; the raw key never enters the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent (for example, create confluent cloud api key) and Jentic returns the matching Confluent operation with its input schema, so the agent picks the right endpoint without reading the docs site.

Time to first call

Direct Confluent Cloud integration: 4-8 hours to handle Basic vs Bearer auth, pagination, and CRN-based resource scoping. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

Aiven API

Aiven offers managed Kafka alongside Postgres, OpenSearch, and other open-source data services

Pick Aiven when the team wants Kafka plus other managed open-source services from one provider; pick Confluent Cloud for Kafka-native features like Stream Governance and ksqlDB.

Alternative

Upstash API

Upstash provides serverless Kafka and Redis with per-request pricing

Pick Upstash for low-throughput, serverless workloads; pick Confluent Cloud for production streaming with high throughput and enterprise IAM.

Complementary

AWS EventBridge

AWS EventBridge is the AWS event bus often used alongside Confluent in hybrid architectures

Use EventBridge alongside Confluent Cloud when bridging events between AWS-native services and Confluent-managed Kafka.

FAQs

Specific to using Confluent Cloud API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Confluent Cloud API?

Confluent does not publish a single OpenAPI specification covering the cloud control plane. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Confluent Cloud API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Confluent Cloud API use?

Two schemes are supported: HTTP Basic with a Cloud API key as the username and the secret as the password, or OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens for federated access. Through Jentic the credential is held in the vault and never enters the agent's prompt.

Can I create and rotate Cloud API keys via the API?

Yes. POST /iam/v2/api_keys mints a new key bound to a user or service account, GET /iam/v2/api_keys lists existing keys, and DELETE /iam/v2/api_keys/{api_key_id} revokes one. This is the supported path for automated rotation.

Can I invite users to my Confluent Cloud organization through the API?

Yes. POST /iam/v2/invitations creates an invitation for an email address and assigns an organization-level role. The invitee then accepts via the standard Confluent Cloud sign-up flow.

How do I audit role bindings across my organization?

Page through GET /iam/v2/role_bindings, which returns role bindings as principal, role_name, crn_pattern triples. Join with GET /iam/v2/users and GET /iam/v2/service_accounts to resolve principal emails or display names for the report.

How do I provision Confluent Cloud resources through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, then await client.search('create confluent cloud api key'), load the matching operation schema, and execute it. The underlying call is POST /iam/v2/api_keys with the service account ID you target at runtime.