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Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Cluster Setup
- Overview of Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
- Core concepts: Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, and topics
- The role of Kafka in data streaming and messaging pipelines
- Confluent extensions: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
- Kafka cluster architecture: understanding brokers, partitions, and replication
Module 2: Configuring Zookeeper Quorums
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- The function of Zookeeper within a Kafka cluster
- Determining appropriate Zookeeper quorum sizes
- Configuring Zookeeper settings
- Implementing SSH on servers
- Hands-on: Zookeeper configuration (both as a team and as a service)
- Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Hands-on: Setting up Zookeeper quorums
- Exploring Zookeeper's internal file system
- Performance factors impacting Zookeeper
- Demo: Zookeeper management tools and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring Kafka Clusters
- Fundamentals of Kafka
- Configuring Kafka parameters
- Hands-on: Configuring Kafka on a single broker
- Hands-on: Executing Kafka commands
- Hands-on: Setting up a multi-broker (cluster) Kafka environment
- Hands-on: Testing the Kafka cluster
- Verifying connectivity to the Kafka cluster
- Configuring Advertised.listeners: key settings
- Configuring Topics
- Setting up message ingestion and delivery within topics
- Hands-on: Demonstrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance analysis: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS
- 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)
- Utilizing metrics and monitoring tools (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Managing log files and offsets
- Ensuring high availability and disaster recovery
- Achieving high availability through replication
- Performance tuning for producers and consumers
- Implementing disaster recovery strategies
- Managing failover control and data recovery
- Setting up Connectors
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Kafka security features
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Proficiency with Linux-based systems and command-line utilities
- Knowledge of distributed systems principles
- Comprehension 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 :)
