Installing Kafka On Linux

In this article, i will show you how to install Apache Kafka on Linux.

Step 1 — Verifying Java Installation

Since Kafka supports java8 and above you should install java on your system.

Verify using command (java -version)

$ java -version

Step2 — Download Apache Kafka

Go to https://kafka.apache.org/downloads and download the Kafka binaries as Scala

Extract the file using command

$ tar –xvzf kafka_2.12-2.6.0.tgz

Step 3 — Test if Kafka well installed

Go to kafka directory and run command :

$ bin/kafka-topics.sh

Step 4 — Edit PATH to include KAFKA

To use Kafka command in any directory, edit file in ~/.bashrc file by adding PATH where you kafka directory is placed :

export PATH=/home/oubelque/kafka_2.12-2.6.0/bin:$PATH

Step 5 — Zookeeper & Kafka configuration

Edit zookeeper.properties :

dataDir=/home/oubelque/kafka_2.12-2.6.0/data/zookeeper

Edit server.properties :

log.dirs=/home/oubelque/kafka_2.12-2.6.0/data/kafka

Step 6 — Start Zookeeper

Start Zookeeper in one terminal using command :

$ zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties

You should see this message : INFO binding to port 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181

Step 7 — Start Kafka

Start Kafka broker in another terminal using command :

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

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