  Twenty years past its discovery, the top quark continues attracting great
interest as experiments keep unveiling its properties. An overview of the
latest measurements in the domain of top quark production, performed by the
ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN LHC, is given. The latest measurements of
top quark production rates via strong and electroweak processes are reported
and compared to different perturbative QCD predictions. Fundamental properties,
such as the mass or the couplings of the top quark, as well as
re-interpretations seeking for beyond the standard model contributions in the
top quark sector, are extracted from these measurements. In each case an
attempt to highlight the first results and main prospects for the on-going Run
2 of the LHC is made.
