Installing Kafka - scottlove/MessageProducer GitHub Wiki

1)Download Kafka

• wget https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/kafka/kafka_2.8.0-0.8.0-beta1.tgz

2. download OpenJDK

• sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

3. cd to Kafka directory into config directory

• Update broker id if this is multiple brokers
• Update zookeeper Hostname replacing local host

6. start zookeeper (this is only for standalone mode – should already be running on seperate cluster

• bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties &

7. Create a test topic

• bin/kafka-create-topic.sh --zookeeper zookeepeHostname:2181 --replica 1 --partition 1 --topic test

8. list topics
   • sudo bin/kafka-list-topic.sh --zookeeper zookeeper:2181