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Downloads:
6,375
Downloads of v 0.10.2.1:
424
Last Update:
28 Apr 2017
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Kafka
Tags:
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Kafka
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Downloads:
6,375
Downloads of v 0.10.2.1:
424
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Kafka
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Kafka 0.10.2.1
This is not the latest version of Kafka available.
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To install Kafka, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To upgrade Kafka, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To uninstall Kafka, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
NOTE: This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.
1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment
Please see the organizational deployment guide
2. Get the package into your environment-
Open Source or Commercial:
- Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
- You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download
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Open Source
- Download the Package Download
- Follow manual internalization instructions
-
Package Internalizer (C4B)
- Run
choco download kafka --internalize --version=0.10.2.1 --source=https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2
(additional options) - Run
choco push --source="'http://internal/odata/repo'"
for package and dependencies - Automate package internalization
- Run
3. Enter your internal repository url
(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2)
4. Choose your deployment method:
choco upgrade kafka -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'" [other options]
See options you can pass to upgrade.
See best practices for scripting.
Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.
If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:
choco upgrade kafka -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Ensure kafka installed
win_chocolatey:
name: kafka
state: present
version: 0.10.2.1
source: STEP 3 URL
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
chocolatey_package 'kafka' do
action :install
version '0.10.2.1'
source 'STEP 3 URL'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
Chocolatey::Ensure-Package
(
Name: kafka,
Version: 0.10.2.1,
Source: STEP 3 URL
);
Requires Otter Chocolatey Extension. See docs at https://inedo.com/den/otter/chocolatey.
cChocoPackageInstaller kafka
{
Name = 'kafka'
Ensure = 'Present'
Version = '0.10.2.1'
Source = 'STEP 3 URL'
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'kafka':
provider => 'chocolatey',
ensure => '0.10.2.1',
source => 'STEP 3 URL',
}
Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.
salt '*' chocolatey.install kafka version="0.10.2.1" source="STEP 3 URL"
See docs at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html.
5. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation
See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.
This package was approved by moderator AdmiringWorm on 28 Apr 2017.
Kafka is a distributed streaming platform. What exactly does that mean?
We think of a streaming platform as having three key capabilities:
It lets you publish and subscribe to streams of records. In this respect it is similar to a message queue or enterprise messaging system.
It lets you store streams of records in a fault-tolerant way.
It lets you process streams of records as they occur.
What is Kafka good for?
It gets used for two broad classes of application:
Building real-time streaming data pipelines that reliably get data between systems or applications
Building real-time streaming applications that transform or react to the streams of data
To understand how Kafka does these things, let's dive in and explore Kafka's capabilities from the bottom up.
First a few concepts:
Kafka is run as a cluster on one or more servers.
The Kafka cluster stores streams of records in categories called topics.
Each record consists of a key, a value, and a timestamp.
This is an automatic package.
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$PackageName = 'kafka'
$url32 = 'http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/apache/kafka/0.10.2.1/kafka_2.11-0.10.2.1.tgz'
$checksum32 = 'b86f75c8f078bc818031568155dd442ba6c1ed849663d0a7da9870efc96be461'
$packageArgs = @{
packageName = $packageName
url = $url32
checksum = $checksum32
checksumType = 'sha256'
unzipLocation = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
}
Install-ChocolateyZipPackage @packageArgs
$File = Get-ChildItem -File -Path $env:ChocolateyInstall\lib\$packageName\tools\ -Filter *.tar
Get-ChocolateyUnzip -fileFullPath $File.FullName -destination $env:ChocolateyInstall\lib\$packageName\tools\
function Invoke-StopAndDeleteService {
param (
$ServiceName
)
if ($Service = Get-Service $ServiceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
if ($Service.Status -eq "Running") {
Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin "stop $ServiceName" "sc.exe"
}
Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin "delete $ServiceName" "sc.exe"
}
}
$ServiceName = 'kafka-service'
Invoke-StopAndDeleteService -ServiceName $ServiceName
Write-Host "Installing service"
Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin "install $ServiceName $(Join-Path $env:chocolateyPackageFolder "tools\kafka_2.11-$PackageVersion\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat") $(Join-Path $env:chocolateyPackageFolder "tools\kafka_2.11-$PackageVersion\config\server.properties")" nssm
Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin "set $ServiceName Start SERVICE_DEMAND_START" nssm
$ServiceName = 'kafka-zookeeper-service'
Invoke-StopAndDeleteService -ServiceName $ServiceName
Write-Host "Installing service"
Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin "install $ServiceName $(Join-Path $env:chocolateyPackageFolder "tools\kafka_2.11-$PackageVersion\bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat") $(Join-Path $env:chocolateyPackageFolder "tools\kafka_2.11-$PackageVersion\config\zookeeper.properties")" nssm
Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin "set $ServiceName Start SERVICE_DEMAND_START" nssm
$PackageName="kafka"
function Invoke-StopAndDeleteService {
param (
$ServiceName
)
if ($Service = Get-Service $ServiceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
if ($Service.Status -eq "Running") {
Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin "stop $ServiceName" "sc.exe"
}
Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin "delete $ServiceName" "sc.exe"
}
}
$ServiceName="kafka-service"
Invoke-StopAndDeleteService -ServiceName $ServiceName
$ServiceName = "kafka-zookeeper-service"
Invoke-StopAndDeleteService -ServiceName $ServiceName
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Version | Downloads | Last Updated | Status |
---|---|---|---|
Kafka 1.1.0 | 3341 | Tuesday, May 1, 2018 | Approved |
Kafka 1.0.0 | 831 | Thursday, November 2, 2017 | Approved |
Kafka 0.11.0.1 | 490 | Thursday, September 14, 2017 | Approved |
Kafka 0.11.0.0 | 511 | Thursday, June 29, 2017 | Approved |
Kafka 0.10.2.1 | 424 | Friday, April 28, 2017 | Approved |
Kafka 0.10.2.0 | 437 | Thursday, February 23, 2017 | Approved |
Kafka 0.10.1.1 | 341 | Tuesday, February 14, 2017 | Approved |
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- nssm (≥ 2.24.0.20161223)
- server-jre (≥ 8.0.0)
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