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How to Manage Users for Vultr Managed Apache Kafka®

Updated on 28 August, 2025

Vultr Managed Apache Kafka® user management feature allows customers to easily add or delete users from their Kafka instance and manage user permissions. This intuitive interface streamlines access control, enabling organizations to define roles and responsibilities for each user, ensuring secure and efficient collaboration. With flexible permission settings, tailoring the user experience to meet their operational needs while maintaining security protocols.

Follow this guide to manage users for Vultr Managed Apache Kafka® with Vultr Customer Portal, API, CLI, or Terraform.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  • Terraform
  1. Navigate to Products and select Databases.
  2. Select the target database.
  3. Navigate to Topic & Users to manage Users for Vultr Managed Apache Kafka®.
  4. Click Add New User.
  5. Provide values for Username, Permissions, and Password.
  6. Click Create New User.

  1. List all the databases by sending a GET request to the List Managed Databases endpoint and note the target database's ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases" \
    -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a POST request to the Create Database User endpoint to create a new user for your database.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases/<database-id>/users" \ 
    -X POST \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{
        "username": "user1",
        "password": "p@ssWord123#",
        "permission": "readwrite"
}'

  3. Send a GET request to the List Database Users endpoint to list all the users.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases/<database-id>/users" \
    -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  4. Send a DELETE request to Delete Database User endpoint

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases/{database-id}/users/{username}" \
    -X DELETE \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List all databases and note the target database's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli database list --summarize

  2. List all the users.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli database user list <database-id>

  3. Delete a user.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli database user delete <database-id> <user-name>

    Run vultr-cli database update --help to view all options.

  1. Ensure the Vultr Terraform provider is configured.

  2. Create a Kafka user with Terraform.

    terraform 
    terraform {
    required_providers {
        vultr = {
            source  = "vultr/vultr"
            version = "~> 2.26"
        }
    }
}

provider "vultr" {}

# Existing database assumed
variable "database_id" { type = string }

resource "vultr_database_user" "kafka_user" {
    database_id = var.database_id
    username    = "user1"
    password    = "p@ssWord123#"
    permission = "readwrite"
}

  3. To delete the user, remove the resource block or run:

    console 
    $ terraform destroy -target vultr_database_user.kafka_user

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