.. _cli-confluent-start:

===============
confluent start
===============

Description
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Start  |CP| services. For a list of available services, see :ref:`available_packages`.


Usage
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.. sourcecode:: bash

    confluent start [<service>]

.. tip:: For usage information, enter ``confluent help start``.

Options
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None.

Positional arguments
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Name, shorthand  Default         Description
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``<service>``    All services    The service name. If specified, it starts the service
                                 and all dependencies.

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Examples
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- Start all available services:

  .. sourcecode:: bash

    confluent start

  Your output should resemble:

  .. sourcecode:: bash

    Starting zookeeper
    zookeeper is [UP]
    Starting kafka
    kafka is [UP]
    Starting schema-registry
    schema-registry is [UP]
    Starting kafka-rest
    kafka-rest is [UP]
    Starting connect
    connect is [UP]

- Start Kafka and ZooKeeper as its dependency:

  .. sourcecode:: bash

    confluent start kafka

  Your output should resemble:

  .. sourcecode:: bash

    Starting zookeeper
    zookeeper is [UP]
    Starting kafka
    kafka is [UP]