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Duration 16 hours
Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Cluster Setup
- Understanding Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
- Core concepts: brokers, producers, consumers, and topics
- The function of Kafka in data streaming and messaging workflows
- Confluent-specific additions: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
- Kafka cluster structure: brokers, partitions, and replication
Module 2: Configuring Zookeeper Quorums
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- The function of Zookeeper within a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper quorum size
- Zookeeper configuration basics
- Setting up SSH on server infrastructure
- Practical Exercise: Configuring Zookeeper (team and service modes)
- Navigating the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Practical Exercise: Establishing Zookeeper quorums
- Exploring Zookeeper's internal file system
- Performance considerations for Zookeeper
- Demonstration: Using Zookeeper management tools and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring Kafka Clusters
- Fundamentals of Kafka
- Essential Kafka configuration settings
- Practical Exercise: Configuring Kafka on a single broker
- Practical Exercise: Running Kafka commands
- Practical Exercise: Establishing a multi-broker Kafka cluster
- Practical Exercise: Testing Kafka cluster integrity
- Verifying connectivity to your Kafka cluster
- Configuring Advertised.listeners: critical settings
- Topic configuration details
- Setting up message ingestion and delivery through topics
- Practical Exercise: Demonstrating Kafka's resilience
- Kafka performance analysis: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS factors
- Additional performance factors affecting Kafka
- Practical Exercise: Modifying broker configurations
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- Configuring Landoop Kafka Topics UI, Confluent REST Proxy, and Schema Registry
- Messaging via CLI, Java, and Spring Framework
- Monitoring tools and metrics (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Managing log files and offsets
- High availability and disaster recovery planning
- Achieving high availability through replication
- Tuning producer and consumer performance
- Disaster recovery strategies
- Failover control and data restoration techniques
- Configuring connectors
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Integrating Kafka security features
Summary and Recommended Next Steps
Requirements
- Proficiency with Linux-based operating systems and command-line interfaces
- Working knowledge of distributed systems principles
- Foundational understanding of networking protocols and system configuration
Target Audience
- DevOps and SRE teams overseeing Kafka deployments
- System administrators managing Confluent and Zookeeper infrastructure
- Kafka developers and architects focused on building scalable systems
Testimonials (2)
Possibility to perform independent exercises in the training environment.
Tomasz - PKO Zycie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen S.A.
Course - Kafka for Administrators
Very practical examples. The trainer has tried to keep a pace where everybody is able to go with even though the group was quite inhomogeneous regarding the knowhow. He has provided a lot of support to basically everybody who asked for it :)
