alnoda-workspaces/workspaces/kafka-workspace/removeme_docs/getting-started.md

Getting started

Intro

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Kafka workspace to explore and interact with Kafka.

Singl-node Kafka cluster is running within the workspace, but all the tools can be used with the external Kafka clusters.

To start, open workspace UI http://localhost:8020/ for quick access to all the tools

Open browser-based VS-code editor from the workspace UI, or go directly to http://localhost:8025/, and connect to the local Kafka cluster using VS-code Kafka extension. You only need to provide the name for the cluster, which can be any.

Using VS-code Kafka extension create topic "quickstart-events", and cosume events from this topic directly in VS-code using Kafka extension

Kafka native tools

Kafka distribution itself contains command line tools that allow to create topics, send and consume events, etc. Open workspace terminal http://localhost:8026/ and go to Kafka directory

cd /opt/kafka

• create topic

bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1 --topic quickstart-events --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

• send some messages

bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --topic quickstart-events --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

• consume messages

bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --topic quickstart-events --from-beginning --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

kt

Kafka tool that likes JSON.

Configure brokers, topic, Kafka version and authentication via environment variables KT_BROKERS, KT_TOPIC, KT_KAFKA_VERSION and KT_AUTH.

• Set topic to "quickstart-events" (local Kafka instance by default)

export KT_TOPIC="quickstart-events"

• Get information about topics, brockers and consumer groups

kt topic 
kt group

• consume messages

kt consume 

• produce messages

echo 'Bob wins Oscar' | kt produce -topic quickstart-events -literal

kafkactl

A command-line interface for interaction with Apache Kafka.

• Consume from topic "quickstart-events"

kafkactl consume  quickstart-events --from-beginning
kafkactl consume quickstart-events --from-beginning --print-keys --print-timestamps -o yaml

kcat

Generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka.

• Consume topic "quickstart-events"

kafkacat -b localhost -t quickstart-events

• Produce events to the topic

echo "Hello World" | kafkacat -b localhost -t quickstart-events

kcli

Kafka read only command line browser

Launch kcli in the Workspace terminal

kcli

trubka

Kafka CLI tool built in Go which gives you everything you need.

• Consume from the topic "quickstart-events"

trubka consume plain quickstart-events --brokers localhost:9092

• Produce message to the topic

trubka produce plain quickstart-events "Random Data" --brokers localhost:9092