DOC-2329: Update Serverless docs for new trial onboarding experience#631
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Documents the guided onboarding for Serverless free-trial users: the optional sign-up questionnaire, the welcome experience on the cluster Overview page, and the Get started drawer with Connect pipeline and rpk on-ramps. Aligns Get started terminology with the UI and adds a July 2026 What's New entry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDocumentation updates describe a revised Serverless onboarding flow: on first sign-in, the Overview page now shows a Get started button offering guided options (Redpanda Connect, Kafka client, or rpk) instead of prior console-based instructions. The serverless.adoc page and get-started-serverless partial were updated accordingly, a July 2026 changelog entry was added to whats-new-cloud.adoc, and a minor casing fix was made in cloud-quickstart.adoc. Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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Align the Serverless onboarding docs with the shipped UI (cloudv2#27630):
- Scope the "Get started" button/drawer to the first sign-in session, since
the welcome banner and drawer only render then (gated behind
enable-serverless-trial-questionnaire + the signup session).
- Add the third drawer on-ramp ("bring your own Kafka client") that ships
alongside the pipeline and rpk options.
- Soften "optional questionnaire" wording in What's New.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nboarding # Conflicts: # modules/get-started/pages/whats-new-cloud.adoc
- Match the Get started drawer order (pipeline, rpk, then bring your own Kafka client); add an rpk lead-in so the numbered steps attach cleanly. - Use "Redpanda Cloud UI" and "Get started button" (drop "drawer" jargon) for terminology consistency. - De-duplicate the "first time you sign in" sentence in the partial. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Documents the new guided onboarding for Serverless free-trial users (ENG-1092 / ENG-1228). Resolves DOC-2329.
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get-started-serverless.adocpartial): mentions the first-sign-in questions, and replaces the old "follow the steps in the Console" flow with the new Get started button/drawer shown on the cluster Overview page the first time you sign in. Lists all three drawer on-ramps in UI order: Connect pipeline,rpk, and bring your own Kafka client.serverless.adoc): therpkguidance now points to the first-sign-in Get started drawer (Connect from your terminal option), while keeping therpkcommands generally applicable. The persistent How to connect - Kafka API tab reference is unchanged — that section still renders on the Overview page for all users; the drawer's Kafka client card is an additional first-sign-in surface, not a replacement. Both product-linked anchors (#get-started-with-serverless,#interact-with-your-cluster) are preserved; the drawer deep-links to them.cloud-quickstart.adocpartial): Get Started → Get started to match UI terminology (also renders on the Cloud overview page).Verified against shipped code (cloudv2#27630)
$100 USD/30 days).rpk), Bring your own Kafka client.serverless.adocsections Get started with Serverless and Interact with your cluster).Out of scope
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