February 2022
Beginner
272 pages
7h 48m
English
Despite having a sophisticated feature set, the Apache Kafka installation process is straightforward. Let’s look at setup concerns first.
Linux is the most likely home for Kafka, and that seems to be where many user support forums continue to focus their questions and answers. We’ve used macOS with Bash (a default terminal before macOS Catalina) or zsh (the default terminal since macOS Catalina). Though it’s totally fine to run Kafka on Microsoft® Windows® for development, it’s not recommended in a production environment [1].
NOTE In a later section, we also explain installation using Docker (http://docker.com).
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