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Duration 16 hours
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to 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 pipelines
- Confluent extensions: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
- Kafka cluster architecture: brokers, partitions, and replication
Module 2: Zookeeper Quorum Configuration
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- The role of Zookeeper within a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper quorum size
- Zookeeper configuration procedures
- 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
- Understanding Zookeeper's internal file system
- Performance factors impacting Zookeeper
- Demo: Managing Zookeeper with tools and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Kafka Cluster Configuration
- Foundations of Kafka
- Kafka configuration settings
- Hands-on: Configuring Kafka on a single broker
- Hands-on: Running Kafka commands
- Hands-on: Setting up 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 details
- Establishing message ingestion and delivery within topics
- Hands-on: Demonstrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS considerations
- Kafka performance: additional influencing factors
- Hands-on: Modifying broker configurations
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- 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 tools (such as Confluent Control Center and Elasticsearch)
- Managing log files and offsets
- High availability and disaster recovery principles
- Achieving high availability through replication
- Performance tuning for producers and consumers
- Implementing disaster recovery strategies
- Controlling failover and recovering data
- Setting up connectors
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Kafka security features
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Practical experience with Linux-based systems and command-line utilities
- Familiarity with distributed systems principles
- Knowledge of fundamental networking and system configuration
Audience
- DevOps and SRE teams overseeing Kafka deployments
- System administrators managing Confluent and Zookeeper infrastructure
- Kafka developers and architects responsible 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 :)
