# Confluent event configuration tutorial

This article steps you through configuring the Confluent Cloud platform for streaming event delivery. The configuration process involves three things in Confluent Cloud:

1. Confluent Cloud cluster — Confluent lets you create a managed cluster, where you create the topics through which you can receive data events.
2. Confluent Cloud topic — A resource inside a cluster to which events are delivered.
3. API key —  A code used to identify and authenticate an application or user.

For this tutorial, you need:

* A [Confluent Cloud account](https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/overview.html)

## Configure a cluster

1. Log in to your Confluent Cloud account.
2. In the sidebar, click the **Environments** tab.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud Environments tab." align="center" className="border" width="200px" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/14cf395-image001.png" />

3. Click the **Add Cluster** button.

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4. Select a cluster type (choose **Basic**, **Standard**, or **Dedicated**).

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud Create cluster screen." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/3ada813-image005.png" />

5. Select a cloud provider, region, and zones.

6. Click **Continue**.

7. If you choose the **Dedicated** cluster type, you **must** select the networking type **Internet**.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud Internet type selection." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/1b2d2d8-image009.png" />

8. Click **Continue**.

9. For encryption-key management, choose either **Automatic** or **Self managed**.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud Automatic selection. " align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/5cc1224-image011.png" />

10. Click **Continue**.

11. Finish the configuration and then click **Launch cluster**.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud Launch cluster button." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/37e76c9-image013.png" />

# Add a topic

Create a topic in the cluster for events that will be produced and delivered by Pismo.

1. In the sidebar, click **Topics**.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud sidebar with Topics selected." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/f5af655-image015.png" />

2. Create a topic and enter a topic name.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud New topic area." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/fbecbd6-new_topic.png" />

3. Click **Create with defaults**.

# Create API key

1. In the sidebar, click **API Keys**.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud sidebar with API Keys selected." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/c9002d2-image017.png" />

2. Click the **Add Key** button.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud Add key button." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/010cb14-key.png" />

3. Click **Granular Access** and then click **Next**.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud Create key screen." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/59498f3-image019.png" />

4. Click the **Topic** tab.

<Image alt="Screen capture of the Confluent Cloud Topic tab." align="center" className="border" border={true} src="https://files.readme.io/5bea0b0-image022.jpg" />

5. Do the following:
   * In the **Topic name** field, enter the name of the topic you created.
   * In the **Pattern type** field, select **LITERAL**.
   * In the **Operation** field, select **WRITE**.
   * In the **Permission** field, select **ALLOW**.
   * Click **Next**.
6. Download and take note of the API Key and Secret.
7. Contact your Pismo representative to provide:
   * Topic name
   * API key (for example, E2ERBNBA7OUI6FMA)
   * API secret (for example, I5RV95UHc1kpkV4BMjWWsoJ+WtBoUDLvhseqKuvw8/cvge2uEoVy4lJkNcqt4I6w)
   * Bootstrap server (for example, pkc-56d1g.eastus.azure.confluent.cloud:9092)\
     Pismo uses this info to set up event delivery to the cluster you have created.