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Duration 16 hours
Course Outline
Module 1: Fundamentals of Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Cluster Configuration
- Overview of Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
- Core concepts: Kafka broker, producer, consumer, and topics
- The role of Kafka in data streaming and messaging pipelines
- Confluent extensions: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
- Kafka cluster architecture: brokers, partitions, and replication
Module 2: Configuring Zookeeper Quorum
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- Zookeeper’s function within a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper quorum size
- Zookeeper configuration details
- 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 Zookeeper quorum
- Zookeeper’s internal file system
- Performance considerations for Zookeeper
- Demo: Zookeeper management tools and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring Kafka Clusters
- Essential Kafka basics
- Kafka configuration parameters
- Hands-on: Configuring Kafka on a single broker
- Hands-on: Running Kafka commands
- Hands-on: Establishing a Kafka multi-broker (cluster) setup
- Hands-on: Testing the Kafka cluster
- Verification of Kafka cluster connectivity
- Advertised.listeners configuration: critical settings
- Topic configuration specifics
- Configuring message ingestion and delivery across topics
- Hands-on: Demonstrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS factors
- Kafka performance: additional influencing elements
- Hands-on: Modifying broker configurations
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- Configuring Landoop Kafka Topics UI, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
- Message sending and receiving (via CLI, Java, Spring Framework)
- Metrics and monitoring tools (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Log files and offset management
- High availability and disaster recovery concepts
- Ensuring high availability through replication
- Performance tuning for producers and consumers
- Disaster recovery strategies
- Failover control and data recovery processes
- Setting up connectors
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Kafka security features
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Proficiency with Linux-based systems and command-line utilities
- Working knowledge of distributed systems principles
- Familiarity with fundamental networking and system configuration concepts
Target Audience
- DevOps and SRE teams overseeing Kafka deployments
- System administrators managing Confluent and Zookeeper infrastructures
- Kafka developers and architects accountable for scalable system designs
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 :)
