Apache Kafka Installation

In this post we will go through the details of Apache Kafka installation on windows machine

Download Apache Kafka from the url https://kafka.apache.org/downloads

To start Apache Kafka with ZooKeeper follow the below steps

• Once the binary is downloaded extract the kafka files
• We will have to perform some configurations before starting the Kafka
• Navigate to config folder inside kafka

• Open zookeeper.properties and update the dataDir path to where the snapshot has to be stored
• Open server.properties and update the logs.dir path to where the logs has to be stored
• This completes the configuration
• The windows scripts(batch files) are present inside bin/windows

• Run the following commands in order to start all services in the correct order:

D:\kafka_2.13-3.4.0\bin\windows>zookeeper-server-start.bat ../../config/zookeeper.properties

• open another cmd and run:

D:\kafka_2.13-3.4.0\bin\windows>kafka-server-start.bat ../../config/server.properties

• Once all services have successfully launched, we will have a basic Kafka environment running and ready to use.
• Next we will create topic to store the events

D:\kafka_2.13-3.4.0\bin\windows>kafka-topics.bat --describe --topic <topic_name> --bootstrap-server localhost:9092