Demonstrate "Kafka"

The goal is to demonstrate what is Kafka and How it works with a show & tell approach.

Required tools:

1. a container runtime: docker (+docker-compose), podman..
2. kafkacat : available on docker hub, github ..
3. kafka

You can use the docker-compose file availble in this repo, it'll setup zookeeper/kafka. You will still need to download kafka and possibly kafkacat. Kafka is delivered with a basic client when kafkacat which is only a client comes with nice features which really helps exploring the vast world of Kafka.

Let's roll

• let's start Kafka

In the DIRECTORY dir., run:

docker-compose up

This should make your kafka broker available on 127.0.0.1:9092, try it out but first, you'll need a client to work with.

docker run --rm --network docker_app-tier bitnami/kafka:2.5.0 kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server kafka:9092 --list