This is a collection of materials to learn the basics of Apache Kafka.

To bring up a small KRaft-based Kafka cluster and a kafka-ui server, there are two options:

• using a Docker Desktop Dev Environment, which will clone the repository for you.
• cloning the repository yourself and using Docker Compose directly.

Open this link.

When asked for a name by Docker Desktop, enter kafka-materials. NOTE: if you do not do this, the scripts in the scripts folder will not work!

Clone this repository with your favourite Git client.

From a Bash shell (e.g. Git Bash on Windows), run this command from the main directory of your clone:

./compose-dev.sh up -d

After some time from startup, the kafka-ui server should be available from:

http://localhost:8080