Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to the architecture and configuration of the Confluent Apache Kafka cluster
- Kafka's role in modern data pipelines
- Differences between Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka
- Core components: producers, consumers, brokers, topics, partitions
- Kafka cluster deployment models and scaling considerations
Module 2: Zookeeper Quorum Configuration
- What is Zookeeper?
- Zookeeper’s role in a Kafka cluster
- Zookeeper Quorum size
- Zookeeper configuration
- Implementing SSH on our servers
- Practical: Zookeeper configuration (as a team and as a service)
- Using the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Practical: Zookeeper Quorum configuration
- Zookeeper internal file system
- Performance factors affecting Zookeeper
- Demonstration of management tools for Zookeeper and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Kafka Cluster Configuration
- Basic Kafka concepts
- Kafka configuration
- Practical: Kafka broker configuration
- Practical: Executing Kafka commands
- Practical: Kafka Multi-Broker Cluster configuration
- Practical: Kafka cluster testing
- Can I connect to my Kafka cluster?
- Advertised.listeners configuration: most important setting
- Topic configuration
- Configuration for downloading and ingesting messages in topics
- Practical: Demonstrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance: I/O
- Kafka performance: Network (RED)
- Kafka performance: RAM
- Kafka performance: CPU
- Kafka performance: Operating System (OS)
- Kafka performance: Others
- Practical: How to change Kafka broker configuration
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration
- Landoop Kafka topic user interface, Confluent REST Proxy, Confluent Schema Registry configuration
- Sending and receiving messages (CLI, Java, and Spring framework)
- Monitoring metrics and tools (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, etc.)
- Log files and offset management
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Ensuring high availability through replication
- Tuning producer and consumer performance
- Disaster recovery strategies
- Failover control and data recovery
- Connector configuration
- Kafka Connect implementation
- Kafka security features
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Familiarity with distributed systems and messaging concepts
- Experience with the Linux command line
- Basic understanding of networking and system administration
Audience
- System administrators
- DevOps engineers
- Platform and infrastructure teams
Testimonials (5)
Sufficient hands on, trainer is knowledgable
Chris Tan
Course - A Practical Introduction to Stream Processing
During the exercises, James explained me every step whereever I was getting stuck in more detail. I was completely new to NIFI. He explained the actual purpose of NIFI, even the basics such as open source. He covered every concept of Nifi starting from Beginner Level to Developer Level.
Firdous Hashim Ali - MOD A BLOCK
Course - Apache NiFi for Administrators
That I had it in the first place.
Peter Scales - CACI Ltd
Course - Apache NiFi for Developers
Recalling/reviewing keypoints of the topics discussed.
Paolo Angelo Gaton - SMS Global Technologies Inc.
Course - Building Stream Processing Applications with Kafka Streams
Instructor takes the time to explain the topics and we delve deeply into the installation details of the necessary software to run Kafka.
Juan Manuel Del Alto - Hewlett Packard Centro de Servicios Globales S de RL
Course - Distributed Messaging with Apache Kafka
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