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Apache Kafka Quick Start Guide
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Apache Kafka Quick Start Guide

by Raúl Estrada
December 2018
Beginner
186 pages
4h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Kafka installation

There are three ways to install a Kafka environment:

  • Downloading the executable files
  • Using brew (in macOS) or yum (in Linux)
  • Installing Confluent Platform

For all three ways, the first step is to install Java; we need Java 8. Download and install the latest JDK 8 from the Oracle's website: 

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

At the time of writing, the latest Java 8 JDK version is 8u191.

For Linux users :

  1. Change the file mode to executable as follows, follows these steps:
      > chmod +x jdk-8u191-linux-x64.rpm
  1. Go to the directory in which you want to install Java:
      > cd <directory path>
  1. Run the rpm installer with the following command:
      > rpm -ivh jdk-8u191-linux-x64.rpm
  1. Add to ...
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