Apache Kafka Series – Kafka Cluster Setup & Administration

Hands-On Training on ZooKeeper Quorum Setup, Kafka Cluster Setup and Administration in AWS.

Created by: Stephane Maarek | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner,Solutions Architect,Developer
Best Selling Instructor, 11x AWS Certified, Kafka Guru

Created by: Conduktor Kafkademy
Apache Kafka enterprise platform to empower your teams

What Will I Learn?

• Setup a Zookeeper and Kafka cluster on three machines in AWS
• Learn how to deploy Kafka in Production and understand the target architecture for clusters in AWS
• Setup ZooKeeper Cluster, learn its role for Kafka and usage
• Setup Kafka in Cluster Mode with 3 brokers, including configuration, usage and maintenance
• Shutdown and Recover Kafka brokers, to overcome the common Kafka broker problems
• Configure Kafka Cluster with production settings and optimisations for better performances based on your workload
• Setup web administration tools using Docker: ZooNavigator, Kafka Manager, Confluent Schema Registry, Confluent REST Proxy, Landoop Kafka Topics UI
• Administer Kafka using Kafka Manager

Requirements

• Strong knowledge on Computers, Servers and Networking
• Strong knowledge of Linux commands, we will use Ubuntu 16.04
• Good knowledge of AWS, we will use it as our cloud provider
• Good knowledge of Apache Kafka
• An AWS account and a budget to setup the required machines for the course

Target audience

• System Administrators or Architects, who would like to learn or setup a Kafka Cluster on multiple servers
• Developers who want to understand the inner depth of a Kafka setup
• This course is designed for expert students and should not be taken until all the pre-requisites are met