Install Kafka on CentOS 7

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Prerequisite:

1. Java 1.8

Installation:

1. Download Kafka
   wget https://mirrors.estointernet.in/apache/kafka/2.8.1/kafka_2.13-2.8.1.tgz

2. Extract downloaded zip
   tar -xzf kafka_2.13-2.8.1.tgz

3. Create symlink
   ln -s kafka_2.13-2.8.1 kafka

4. Export
   echo "export PATH=$PATH:/root/kafka__2.13-2.8.1/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

5. Run zookeeper
   

cd kafka/bin
./zookeeper-server-start.sh -daemon ~/kafka/config/zookeeper.properties
#check if zookeeper successfully running
telnet localhost 2181
# install telnet if not available (optional)
yum -y install telnet-server telnet

1. Run kafka

./kafka-server-start.sh -daemon ~/kafka/config/server.properties
#check if kafka successfully running
telnet localhost 9092

Now you are done install kafka on CentOS 7

Optional

1. Create kafka topic
   ./kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic my-topic

2. List created topic
   ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --list

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