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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Confluent Apache Kafka Cluster Architecture and Configuration
- The role of Kafka in modern data pipelines
- Distinctions between Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka
- Essential components: producers, consumers, brokers, topics, and partitions
- Deployment models and scaling factors for Kafka clusters
Module 2: Configuring Zookeeper Quorums
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- The function of Zookeeper within a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper Quorum size
- Setting up Zookeeper configurations
- Establishing SSH on server infrastructure
- Practical: Configuring Zookeeper (as a team and service)
- Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Practical: Setting up Zookeeper Quorums
- Exploring the Zookeeper internal file system
- Performance metrics impacting Zookeeper
- Demo of management tools for Zookeeper and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring the Kafka Cluster
- Fundamental Kafka concepts
- Basic Kafka setup
- Practical: Configuring Kafka brokers
- Practical: Running Kafka commands
- Practical: Setting up a Kafka Multi-Broker Cluster
- Practical: Testing the Kafka cluster
- Verifying connectivity to the Kafka cluster
- Advertised.listeners settings: a critical configuration parameter
- Topic-level configurations
- Settings for message ingestion and retrieval in topics
- Practical: Demonstrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance: I/O operations
- Kafka performance: Network (RED)
- Kafka performance: RAM usage
- Kafka performance: CPU utilization
- Kafka performance: Operating System (OS) interactions
- Kafka performance: Other factors
- Practical: Modifying Kafka broker configurations
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- Configuring Landoop Kafka topic UI, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
- Messaging via CLI, Java, and the Spring framework
- Monitoring metrics and tools (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Managing log files and offsets
- High availability and disaster recovery strategies
- Ensuring resilience through replication
- Optimizing producer and consumer performance
- Disaster recovery planning
- Failover control and data restoration
- Configuring connectors
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Reviewing Kafka security features
Summary and Future Steps
Requirements
- Knowledge of distributed systems and messaging principles
- Proficiency with the Linux command line
- Fundamental understanding of networking and system administration
Target Audience
- System administrators
- DevOps engineers
- Platform and infrastructure teams
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 :)
