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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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Running Kafka

There are two ways to run Kafka, depending on whether we install it directly or through Confluent Platform.

If we install it directly, the steps to run Kafka are as follows.

For macOS users, your paths might be different if you've installed using brew. Check the output of brew install kafka command for the exact command that you can use to start Zookeeper and Kafka.

Go to the Kafka installation directory (/usr/local/kafka for macOS users and /opt/kafka/ for Linux users), as in the example:

> cd /usr/local/kafka

First of all, we need to start Zookeeper (the Kafka dependency with Zookeeper is and will remain strong). Type the following:

> ./bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh ../config/zookeper.propertiesZooKeeper JMX enabled by default ...
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