How to installed confluent kafka in our system

Question

Hi Guys,

I am working in Kafka. But Kafka does not have any Web UI. I searched a lot and came to know, we can use Confluent platform for kafka Web UI.

How can I configure Confluent kafka in my system?

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

Confluent is a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, a full-scale streaming platform, capable of not only publish-and-subscribe, but also the storage and processing of data within the stream.

To install in your system, follow the below given steps.

• Download confluent kafka from the below link.

https://www.confluent.io/download/

• Extract the file using tar command.

• Set path in /etc/profile file.

vi /etc/profile 
export PATH=/root/confluent-5.1.2/bin:$PATH
source /etc/profile

• Run the below given command.

$ bin/confluent-hub install --no-prompt confluentinc/kafka-connect-datagen:latest

• Start the service

$ /bin/confluent local start

• Now go to your Browser and open Below Url With Your Ip

your-ip:9021

Hope this works for you!

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Answer 2

Easy Approach is work with Docker. ConfluentInc is available for Docker version. You have to pull many things through Docker-compose file. At one plateform you can get everything. There is dashboard available you can easily monitor and manage all activities.