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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 of Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, and topics
- The function of Kafka in data streaming and messaging workflows
- Confluent add-ons: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
- Cluster architecture details: brokers, partitions, and replication
Module 2: Zookeeper Quorum Setup
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- Zookeeper's function within a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper quorum size
- Zookeeper configuration parameters
- Implementing SSH on our servers
- Practical Exercise: Configuring Zookeeper (as a team and as a service)
- Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Practical Exercise: Establishing Zookeeper quorum
- Zookeeper's internal file system structure
- Performance considerations impacting Zookeeper
- Demonstration: Zookeeper management utilities and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Kafka Cluster Setup
- Core Kafka concepts
- Kafka configuration settings
- Practical Exercise: Configuring Kafka on a single broker
- Practical Exercise: Running Kafka commands
- Practical Exercise: Setting up a Kafka multi-broker (cluster) environment
- Practical Exercise: Testing the Kafka cluster
- Verifying connectivity to your Kafka cluster
- Configuring Advertised.listeners: essential settings
- Topic configuration details
- Establishing message ingestion and delivery within topics
- Practical Exercise: Illustrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance metrics: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS
- Kafka performance: additional influencing factors
- Practical Exercise: Modifying broker configurations
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configurations
- Configuring Landoop Kafka Topics UI, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
- Sending and receiving messages via CLI, Java, and Spring Framework
- Metrics and monitoring solutions (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, and others)
- Log file and offset management
- High availability and disaster recovery planning
- Achieving high availability through replication
- Performance optimization for producers and consumers
- Disaster recovery methodologies
- Failover control and data restoration
- Connector implementation
- Deploying Kafka Connect
- Kafka security features
Conclusion and Next Steps
Requirements
- Proficiency with Linux-based systems and command-line utilities
- Working knowledge of distributed systems principles
- Foundational understanding of networking and system configuration
Target Audience
- DevOps and SRE teams responsible for Kafka deployments
- System administrators collaborating with Confluent and Zookeeper
- Kafka developers and architects tasked with 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 :)
