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Course Outline
Kafka Administration Essentials
- Understanding where Kafka fits within a modern data platform and typical production responsibilities
- Core concepts for operators: brokers, topics, partitions, offsets, and consumer groups
- Replication fundamentals: leaders and followers, in-sync replicas, and availability trade-offs
- Key operational highlights and common terminology used in runbooks
KRaft Mode and Cluster Design
- KRaft basics: controllers, metadata quorum, elections, and their operational significance
- Deployment planning: sizing for throughput, partitions, retention, and future growth
- Node roles and layouts: combined vs. dedicated controllers, and fault domain considerations
- Lab: inspect KRaft metadata, validate quorum health, and interpret controller logs
Installation, Configuration, and Day-to-Day Operations
- Installation approaches (packages, tarball, containers) and standardization strategies for enterprise environments
- Core broker configuration impacting reliability: listeners, replication, log directories, and retention policies
- Safe service operations: startup order, graceful shutdown procedures, and validation checks
- Lab: deploy a multi-node cluster, verify broker registration, and confirm baseline produce and consume capabilities
Managing Topics, Partitions, and Data Placement
- Topic lifecycle using the Kafka CLI: creating, describing, updating configs, and deleting topics
- Selecting partitions and replication factors for real-world workloads, including common anti-patterns to avoid
- Reassignments and balancing: determining when to move partitions and how to verify progress safely
- Lab: create topics, trigger a partition reassignment, simulate a broker outage, and confirm recovery
Securing Kafka for Production
- TLS for client and inter-broker traffic: certificates, trust chains, and validation steps
- Authentication with SASL: selecting appropriate mechanisms and avoiding misconfigurations
- Authorization with ACLs: applying least-privilege patterns for admins, producers, and consumers
- Lab: enable TLS and SASL, validate client connectivity, and apply ACLs for application roles
Observability, Reliability, and Troubleshooting
- Monitoring essentials: controller health, under-replicated partitions, request latency, and disk/network saturation
- Logs and metrics: reading broker logs and exposing metrics via JMX exporter to common observability stacks
- Operational playbooks: rolling restarts, safe configuration changes, and handling disk-full and ISR issues
- Lab: build a minimal alert set, diagnose a degraded cluster, and restore healthy replication
Upgrades and Disaster Recovery Readiness
- Upgrade planning for Kafka: compatibility checks, staging, and rollback approaches
- Backups and recovery expectations: identifying what can be backed up, what cannot, and configuration recovery basics
- Cross-cluster replication overview and when to utilize MirrorMaker 2 for disaster recovery and migrations
- Wrap-up: operational checklist, handover artifacts, and next steps for production rollout
Requirements
- A solid understanding of basic Linux administration (users, services, files, and permissions)
- Experience with TCP/IP networking concepts (DNS, ports, firewalls, and load balancers)
- Basic scripting proficiency (Bash, PowerShell, or similar) for routine operational tasks
Audience
- Kafka administrators and platform engineers responsible for operating Kafka clusters
- Site reliability engineers and DevOps engineers supporting streaming platforms
- Infrastructure and operations teams deploying new KRaft-based Kafka clusters or migrating from ZooKeeper
21 Hours
Testimonials (5)
Possibility to perform independent exercises in the training environment.
Tomasz - PKO Zycie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen S.A.
Course - Kafka for Administrators
To the point, proper pace (bash basics required though)
Krzysztof - Agora SA
Course - Kafka for Administrators
Trainer accepts questions at any time of the session, even if the subject was taught few days past.
GOODLUCK MASHIMBA - Tanzania Revenue Authority
Course - Kafka for Administrators
Nice presentation skill
Md Maruf Hossain - ATOS PGS sp. z o.o.
Course - Kafka for Administrators
Grate skills, examples, very good exercises
