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Duration 16 hours
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Cluster Setup
- Overview of Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
- Core concepts: Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, and topics
- The role of Kafka in data streaming and messaging workflows
- Confluent extensions: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
- Kafka cluster design: brokers, partitions, and replication
Module 2: Configuring the Zookeeper Quorum
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- The function of Zookeeper within a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper quorum size
- Zookeeper configuration parameters
- Implementing SSH on servers
- Hands-on: Configuring Zookeeper (as a team and as a service)
- Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Hands-on: Setting up a Zookeeper quorum
- Understanding the Zookeeper internal file system
- Performance factors influencing Zookeeper
- Demo: Managing Zookeeper with tools and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring the Kafka Cluster
- Fundamentals of Kafka
- Configuring Kafka
- Hands-on: Configuring Kafka on a single broker
- Hands-on: Executing Kafka commands
- Hands-on: Establishing a Kafka multi-broker (cluster) environment
- Hands-on: Testing the Kafka cluster
- Verifying connectivity to the Kafka cluster
- Configuring advertised.listeners: key settings
- Topic configuration
- Setting up message ingestion and delivery via topics
- Hands-on: Demonstrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS considerations
- Kafka performance: additional factors
- Hands-on: Modifying broker configurations
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- Configuration of Landoop Kafka Topics UI, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
- Sending and receiving messages (via CLI, Java, and Spring Framework)
- Metrics and monitoring tools (including Confluent Control Center and Elasticsearch)
- Log files and offset management
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Achieving high availability through replication
- Performance tuning for producers and consumers
- Disaster recovery strategies
- Failover control and data recovery
- Connector setup
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Kafka security features
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Practical experience with Linux-based operating systems and command-line utilities
- Knowledge of distributed systems principles
- Familiarity with fundamental networking and system configuration
Target Audience
- DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams overseeing Kafka deployments
- System administrators working with Confluent and Zookeeper
- Kafka developers and architects accountable for scalable system design
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 :)
