Deploy Redpanda Kafka-Compatible Streaming on Ubuntu 24.04

This guide walks through installing Redpanda, a Kafka-API-compatible streaming platform written in C++, on Ubuntu 24.04. It covers securing the deployment with Let's Encrypt and SASL/SCRAM authentication, tuning the kernel for production, and setting up Redpanda Console behind Nginx basic auth. By the end, users have a production-ready single-node cluster with a web console.