--- title: Getting started with Iceberg Topics on Redpanda BYOC description: Redpanda 25.1 introduces Iceberg Topics, enabling automatic storage of Kafka topics in Apache Iceberg format for SQL querying by downstream analytics systems.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-iceberg-topics-on-redpanda-byoc-3wukcerse twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Getting started with Iceberg Topics on Redpanda BYOC | daily.dev og:description: Redpanda 25.1 introduces Iceberg Topics, enabling automatic storage of Kafka topics in Apache Iceberg format for SQL querying by downstream analytics systems.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-iceberg-topics-on-redpanda-byoc-3wukcerse og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3WukCErse.png og:image:alt: Getting started with Iceberg Topics on Redpanda BYOC og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Getting started with Iceberg Topics on Redpanda BYOC **[Redpanda](https://daily.dev/sources/redpanda)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Redpanda 25.1 introduces Iceberg Topics, enabling automatic storage of Kafka topics in Apache Iceberg format for SQL querying by downstream analytics systems. The tutorial demonstrates setting up Iceberg Topics on Redpanda BYOC for GCP, including creating topics with Iceberg mode enabled, producing data using Schema Registry, configuring Google Cloud Storage integration, creating BigQuery external tables, and querying streaming data. BYOC customers get full control over their Iceberg data in their own object storage buckets. Additionally, Redpanda BYOC now supports double the partition limits across most tiers due to improved memory efficiency. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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