In this post, we will look at the step-by-step process for Kafka Installation on Windows. Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform and comes…

** What is Kafka?**

Kafka is used for real-time streams of data, to collect big data, or to do real-time analysis (or both). Kafka is used with in-memory microservices to provide durability and it can be used to feed events to complex event streaming systems and IoT/IFTTT-style automation systems.

Installation :

1. Java Setup:

Kafka requires Java 8 for running. And hence, this is the first step that we should do to install Kafka. To install Java, there are a couple of options. We can go for the Oracle JDK version 8 from the Official Oracle Website.

2. Kafka & Zookeeper Configuration:

Step 1: Download Apache Kafka from its Official Site.

Step 2: Extract tgz via cmd or from the available tool to a location of your choice:

tar -xvzf kafka_2.12-2.4.1.tgz

Step 3: Copy the path of the Kafka folder. Now go to config inside Kafka folder and open zookeeper.properties file. Copy the path against the field dataDir and add /zookeeper-data to the path.

Step 4: we have to modify the config/server.properties file. Below is the change:

fileslog.dirs=C:\kafka\kafka-logs

Basically, we are pointing the log.dirs to the new folder /data/kafka.

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