Install Apache Kafka on

Windows
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By Mahesh Alayil
 
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Hope you are clear about Apache Kafka introduction through my previous post. Here we will
go through how we can install Apache Kafka on Windows.

STEP 1: Install JAVA 8 SDK

Make sure you installed JAVA 8 SDK on your system.  You can use chocolatey
( https://chocolatey.org/ ) windows package manager for the same.

and make sure java SDK installed successfully.

STEP 2: Download and Install Apache Kafka Binaries

We will Apache Kafka binaries for installing Apache Kafka.  Go to Apache Kafka official
download page (https://kafka.apache.org/downloads) and download the binaries.
STEP 3: Create Data folder for Zookeeper and Apache Kafka

Create “data” folder and Kafka / Zookeeper directories inside data folder
STEP 4:  Change the default configuration value

Update zookeeper data directory path in “config/zookeeper.Properties” configuration file.

Update Apache Kafka log file path in “config/server.properties” configuration file.

STEP 5:  Start Zookeeper

Now time to start zookeeper from command prompt. Change your directory to bin\windows and
execute zookeeper-server-start.bat command with config/zookeeper.Properties configuration
file.

And make sure zookeeper started successfully

STEP 6:  Start Apache Kafka

Finally time to start Apache Kafka from command prompt. Run kafka-server-

start.bat command with kafka config/server.properties configuration file.
 This will start our Apache Kafka successfully.

Conclusion

That is all for installing Apache Kafka on windows. Time to understand some of the Apache
Kafka theory topics now. Please read Understanding Apache Kafka Topics and
Partitions before we play around with Apache Kafka CLI commands.

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