Start your Kafka server

Let's start by spinning up our Kafka Cluster

Kafka use Zookeeper, therefore before starting up Kafka we need to run Zookeeper as well :)

Docker way

Enter to the cloned repository directory:

cd wwcode-kafka-workshop/kafka-cluster

Start your Kafka Cluster

docker-compose up

Local installation

Enter the folder where you extracted Kafka binaries

cd kafka_2.11-2.0.0/bin

Tip:

If you are running on windows

• Folder to find CLI scripts : bin/windows

• Scripts are not .sh extensions but .bat

Kafka requires Zookeeper, therefore we need to start Zookeeper first

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

Start Kafka Server

bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties

Boom !! You are a rock star by having a Kafka Cluster already up :-)

Having trouble?

• Check your ports are free:

  • Kafka port: 9092

  • Zookeeper port: 2181

• Check you have Java installed