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Course Outline
Module 1: Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Cluster Configuration Fundamentals
- Overview of Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
- Core concepts: 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
- 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 settings
- Implementing SSH on our 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
- Zookeeper’s internal file system structure
- Performance factors impacting Zookeeper
- Demo: Zookeeper management tools and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring Kafka Clusters
- Foundations of Kafka
- Configuring Kafka
- 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 a Kafka cluster
- Verifying connectivity to your Kafka cluster
- Configuring Advertised.listeners: key settings
- Topic configuration
- Establishing message ingestion and delivery in 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)
- Monitoring and metrics tools (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Managing log files and offsets
- High availability and disaster recovery
- 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
- Practical experience with Linux-based systems and command-line utilities
- Knowledge of distributed systems principles
- Grasp of fundamental networking and system configuration
Target Audience
- DevOps and SRE teams overseeing Kafka deployments
- System administrators working with Confluent and Zookeeper
- Kafka developers and architects tasked with building scalable systems
16 Hours
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 :)