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Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Cluster Setup
- Foundations of Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
- Core concepts of Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, and topics
- The function of Kafka within data streaming and messaging pipelines
- Confluent enhancements: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
- Kafka cluster design: brokers, partitions, and replication mechanisms
Module 2: Configuring Zookeeper Quorum
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- The significance of Zookeeper in a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper quorum size
- Zookeeper configuration parameters
- Setting up SSH on our servers
- Practical Lab: Configuring Zookeeper (both as a team and as a service)
- Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Practical Lab: Establishing a Zookeeper quorum
- Zookeeper's internal file system structure
- Performance variables impacting Zookeeper
- Demonstration: Zookeeper administration tools and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring the Kafka Cluster
- Essential Kafka concepts
- Overview of Kafka configuration
- Practical Lab: Configuring Kafka on a single broker
- Practical Lab: Running Kafka commands
- Practical Lab: Setting up a Kafka multi-broker (cluster) environment
- Practical Lab: Testing the Kafka cluster
- Verifying connectivity to your Kafka cluster
- Configuring advertised.listeners: key settings
- Topic-level configuration
- Implementing message ingestion and delivery within topics
- Practical Lab: Illustrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance metrics: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS
- Kafka performance: additional influencing factors
- Practical Lab: Modifying broker configurations
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- Configuring Landoop Kafka Topics UI, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
- Messaging transmission and reception (via CLI, Java, and Spring Framework)
- Metrics and monitoring utilities (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, and others)
- Log file management and offset tracking
- High availability and disaster recovery frameworks
- Achieving high availability through replication
- Performance tuning for producers and consumers
- Disaster recovery strategies
- Failover control and data restoration
- Connector configuration
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Kafka security features
Wrap-up and Recommended Next Steps
Requirements
- Proficiency with Linux-based operating systems and command-line utilities
- Working knowledge of distributed systems principles
- Basic understanding of networking protocols and system configuration
Target Audience
- DevOps and SRE teams overseeing Kafka deployments
- System administrators working with Confluent and Zookeeper
- Kafka developers and architects responsible for scalable system design
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 :)
