kafka-server

Build apache kafka server packages from official.

Introduction

3.8.0

Released July 29, 2024
Release Notes

RPM for EL9 and EL8.

Support:

Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9, Rocky Linux 9, AlmaLinux 9, CentOS 9 Stream)
Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8, Rocky Linux 8, AlmaLinux 8)

DEB for Debian and Ubuntu.

Support:

Debian 12 (Bookworm)
Debian 11 (Bullseye)
Debian 10 (Buster)
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Usage

Download Kafka

Download the package from releases

https://github.com/doraeven/kafka-server/releases

Install Kafka

install with RPM

RHEL, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, CentOS

Install jdk

yum install java-21-openjdk

EL9

rpm -ivh kafka-3.8.0-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

EL8

rpm -ivh kafka-3.8.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

install with DEB

Install jdk

apt install openjdk-21-jdk

Debian or Ubuntu

dpkg -i kafka_3.8.0-1_amd64.deb

Run Kafka with Zookeeper

Start kafka-zookeeper.service

systemctl start kafka-zookeeper.service

Start kafka.service

systemctl start kafka.service

View service status

systemctl status kafka-zookeeper.service
systemctl status kafka.service

Add auto start

systemctl enable kafka-zookeeper.service
systemctl enable kafka.service

Stop service

systemctl stop kafka.service
systemctl stop kafka-zookeeper.service

Disable auto start

systemctl disable kafka-zookeeper.service
systemctl disable kafka.service

Run Kafka with KRaft

Stop kafka and kafka-zookeeper service first

systemctl stop kafka.service
systemctl stop kafka-zookeeper.service

Start Kafka with KRaft

systemctl start kafka-kraft.service

Your need not to init KRaft data dirs, /usr/libexec/kafka-kraft-prepare-log-dirs will do it automatically.

View service status

systemctl status kafka-kraft.service

Add auto start

systemctl enable kafka-kraft.service

Stop service

systemctl stop kafka-kraft.service

Disable auto start

systemctl disable kafka-kraft.service

Uninstall Kafka

uninstall for RPM