Kafka installation on Ubuntu
Kafka message broker is developed by Linkedin. To support their social media platform across the world. Message systems are defined as two Queues, Topics. If a messge send from a producer and received by single consumer then the communication will be point-to-point this is will be allowed in Queues. If Producer produce the message and there coudl be multiple consumers then it is One-to-many or pubf-sub of Publisher/Subscriber model it is implemented by Topic. Kafka supports both message models. Initial Setup for Kafka Kafka is build on scale and it runs on Java run time. So prerequisite to run Kafka we need Java as prerequisite. Optional other tools to help for troubleshoot and identify Kafka ports in use with 'netstat' command, topic content to view 'jq' and to have tree view 'tree' need to installed. apt update apt install -y net-tools jq tree On Ubuntu run the following commands to install compatible Java, here I'm using OpenJDK 21 version apt ...