Step by step run Kafka on Mac

• Download Kafka binary file from https://kafka.apache.org/downloads and install it

• Set up Kafka listen on PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092

terrence@igloo /usr/local/kafka
15:51:25 𝜆 diff config/server.properties config/server.properties.orig
31c31
< listeners=PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092
---
> #listeners=PLAINTEXT://:9092

• Start Zookeeper

igloo:kafka root# bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties

• Start Kafka

igloo:kafka root# bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties

• Create a new Kafka topic named “test”

igloo:kafka root# bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test

• Initialise Producer in Console

terrence@igloo /usr/local/kafka_2.12-2.1.0
16:04:19 𝜆 bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test
>Hello World
>Wow
>

• Initialize Consumer in Console to receive the messages

terrence@igloo /usr/local/kafka_2.12-2.1.0
16:06:11 𝜆 bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning
Hello World
Wow

Run Kafka Manager, an UI tool for managing Kafka.

terrence@igloo ~/bin/kafka-manager-1.3.3.18
16:16:47 𝜆 env ZK_HOSTS="localhost:2181" bin/kafka-manager

Then visit http://localhost:9000

Create a Kafka cluster at first:

Visit “test” topic in Kafka cluster:

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