JahanAjani / Apache-kafka-beginners

This repository closely follow udemy course on apache kafka by Stephane Maarek

Apache-kafka-beginners

This repository closely follow udemy course on apache kafka by Stephane Maarek

Steps to setup development environment on windows:

• Download and Setup Java 8 JDK

• Download the Kafka binaries from https://kafka.apache.org/downloads

• Extract Kafka at the root of C:\

• Setup Kafka bins in the Environment variables section by editing Path

• Try Kafka commands using kafka-topics.bat (for example)

• Edit Zookeeper & Kafka configs using NotePad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/

  • zookeeper.properties: dataDir=C:/kafka_2.12-2.0.0/data/zookeeper (yes the slashes are inversed)

  • server.properties: log.dirs=C:/kafka_2.12-2.0.0/data/kafka (yes the slashes are inversed)

• Start Zookeeper in one command line: zookeeper-server-start.bat config\zookeeper.properties

• Start Kafka in another command line: kafka-server-start.bat config\server.properties