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Duration 16 hours
Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Cluster Setup
- Understanding Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
- Core concepts: Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, and topics
- The pivotal role of Kafka in data streaming and messaging workflows
- Confluent-specific extensions: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
- Cluster architecture details: brokers, partitions, and replication
Module 2: Configuring the Zookeeper Quorum
- An introduction to Zookeeper
- Zookeeper’s function within a Kafka cluster
- Determining optimal Zookeeper quorum sizes
- Managing Zookeeper configuration parameters
- Implementing SSH on server nodes
- Hands-on: Configuring Zookeeper as both a team and a service
- Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Hands-on: Establishing the Zookeeper quorum
- Exploring Zookeeper’s internal file system structure
- Key performance factors influencing Zookeeper
- Demo: Introduction to Zookeeper management tools and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring Kafka Clusters
- Fundamental concepts of Kafka
- Basics of Kafka configuration
- Hands-on: Setting up Kafka on a single broker
- Hands-on: Running basic Kafka commands
- Hands-on: Deploying a multi-broker Kafka cluster
- Hands-on: Testing the stability of the Kafka cluster
- Verifying connectivity to the Kafka cluster
- Configuring Advertised.listeners: critical settings
- Managing topic configurations
- Setting up message ingestion and delivery within topics
- Hands-on: Demonstrating Kafka’s resilience capabilities
- Performance considerations: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS interactions
- Kafka performance: additional influencing factors
- Hands-on: Modifying broker configurations for optimal results
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- Configuring Landoop Kafka Topics UI, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
- Message transmission and reception methods (CLI, Java, Spring Framework)
- Employing metrics and monitoring tools (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Managing log files and offset controls
- Strategies for high availability and disaster recovery
- Ensuring high availability through replication
- Performance tuning for producers and consumers
- Developing disaster recovery plans
- Controlling failover processes and managing data recovery
- Setting up connectors
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Reviewing Kafka security features
Course Summary and Recommended Next Steps
Requirements
- Proficiency with Linux-based operating systems and command-line interfaces
- A solid grasp of distributed systems concepts
- A fundamental understanding of networking and system configuration
Target Audience
- DevOps and SRE teams responsible for managing Kafka deployments
- System administrators overseeing Confluent and Zookeeper environments
- Kafka developers and architects focused on building scalable systems
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 :)
