Install and Use Kafka on Windows Operating System 10/11

Perquisites

• Java Runtime Environment 
  • if not present, download and install from https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#jdk24-windows
  • check version of java after installation
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• Download Kafka for windows  just search
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  • https://kafka.apache.org/downloads
  • Download tgz file: 2.13
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  • Download and Extract folder in a directory
  • Delete .tar and tgz files from root of extracted folder
  • Create Data directory inside extracted directory say “kafka_2.13-3.9.0"
  • Create 2 sub directories under Data Directory
    • Kafka
    • Zookeeper
  • Update path in respective files
    • Open ‘zookeeper’ Properties file  in G:\Software\kafka_2.13-3.9.0\config and update Zookeeper directory path as
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      • Check Slash format
    • Open “server” ’ Properties file  in G:\Software\kafka_2.13-3.9.0\config and update Kafka directory path as
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      • Check Slash format

 

Start respective Services
Go to folder G:\Software\kafka_2.13-3.9.0\bin\windows, Open CMD at this path

• Start zookeeper services by running following command
  • zookeeper-server-start.bat “G:/Software/kafka_2.13-3.9.0/config/zookeeper.properties”
  • kafka-server-start.bat "G:/Software/kafka_2.13-3.9.0/config/server.properties"