Install Kafka Cluster on Ubuntu
1. Spin up Ubuntu server on AWS 2. Connect using putty.(port 22) 3.Check java version java -version. if not install than do below: sudo apt-get update sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer # Managing java sudo update-alternatives --config java Setting the JAVA_HOME Environment Variable sudo update-alternatives --config java sudo vi /etc/environment # INSERT JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle" source /etc/environment echo $JAVA_HOME 4. Download Kafka and unzip # wget http://mirror.vorboss.net/apache/kafka/2.2.0/kafka_2.12-2.2.0.tgz UNTAR kafka tar -xvf <kafka_2.12-2.2.0.tgz> Run below command to see everything works fine bin/kafka-topics.sh now add bin directory to PATH $ pwd /home/ubuntu/kafka_2.12-2.2.0/bin sudo vi ~/.bash_profile and put export PATH="/home/ubuntu/kafka_2.12-2.2.0/bin" OR change the bashrc file ------------- make chnages for zooke