# addRedPanda

- Module: [CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.RedPanda](/reference/api/typescript/communitytoolkit.aspire.hosting.redpanda.md)
- Version: `13.5.0`
- Kind: `method`
- Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Aspire/tree/4ff8268fbd97ddd23cb73dc8eff9cc92718156d1)

Adds a Redpanda container resource to the application. Redpanda is a Kafka API compatible streaming platform, so the resource can be referenced by any Kafka client integration.

## Definition

```typescript
interface IDistributedApplicationBuilder {
  // ... omitted for brevity
  addRedPanda(
    name: string,
    port?: number): RedPandaServerResource
}
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)
- `port` (`number`) `optional`

## Returns

[RedPandaServerResource](/reference/api/typescript/communitytoolkit.aspire.hosting.redpanda/redpandaserverresource.md) `builder`

## Applies to

- [IDistributedApplicationBuilder](/reference/api/typescript/communitytoolkit.aspire.hosting.redpanda/idistributedapplicationbuilder.md)