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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Confluent Apache Kafka architecture and configuration
- The role of Kafka in modern data pipelines
- Distinguishing between Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka
- Key components: producers, consumers, brokers, topics, and partitions
- Cluster deployment models and scaling considerations
Module 2: Configuring Zookeeper Quorums
- Overview of Zookeeper
- Zookeeper’s function within a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper Quorum size
- Configuring Zookeeper
- Implementing SSH on servers
- Practical: Zookeeper configuration (as a team and as a service)
- Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Practical: Zookeeper Quorum configuration
- The Zookeeper internal file system
- Performance factors influencing Zookeeper
- Demonstration of management tools for Zookeeper and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring Kafka Clusters
- Fundamental Kafka concepts
- General Kafka configuration
- Practical: Configuring Kafka brokers
- Practical: Executing Kafka commands
- Practical: Configuring a Kafka Multi-Broker Cluster
- Practical: Testing Kafka clusters
- Verifying connectivity to your Kafka cluster
- Configuring Advertised.listeners: a critical setting
- Topic configuration
- Settings for downloading and ingesting messages within topics
- Practical: Demonstrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance: I/O
- Kafka performance: Network (RED)
- Kafka performance: RAM
- Kafka performance: CPU
- Kafka performance: Operating System (OS)
- Kafka performance: Other factors
- Practical: Modifying Kafka broker configuration
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- Configuring Landoop Kafka topic user interface, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
- Sending and receiving messages via CLI, Java, and the Spring framework
- Monitoring metrics and tools (including Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, and others)
- Managing log files and offsets
- Ensuring high availability and disaster recovery
- Achieving high availability through replication
- Optimizing producer and consumer performance
- Disaster recovery strategies
- Failover control and data recovery
- Configuring connectors
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Kafka security features
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Knowledge of distributed systems and messaging concepts
- 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 :)
