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 Duration 16 hours

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Cluster Configuration

  • Overview of Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform
  • Fundamentals of Kafka brokers, producers, consumers, and topics
  • The role of Kafka in data streaming and messaging pipelines
  • Confluent extensions: REST Proxy, Schema Registry, and Control Center
  • Kafka cluster architecture: brokers, partitions, and replication

Module 2: Zookeeper Quorum Configuration

  • Introduction to Zookeeper
  • Zookeeper's function within a Kafka cluster
  • Determining Zookeeper quorum size
  • Configuring Zookeeper
  • Implementing SSH on servers
  • Hands-on: Zookeeper configuration (both as a team and as a service)
  • Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • Hands-on: Setting up a Zookeeper quorum
  • Zookeeper's internal file system
  • Performance factors influencing Zookeeper
  • Demo: Zookeeper management tools and Zoonavigator

Module 3: Kafka Cluster Configuration

  • Core Kafka concepts
  • Kafka configuration details
  • Hands-on: Configuring Kafka on a single broker
  • Hands-on: Executing Kafka commands
  • Hands-on: Setting up a Kafka multi-broker cluster
  • Hands-on: Testing the Kafka cluster
  • Verifying connectivity to the Kafka cluster
  • Configuring Advertised.listeners: key settings
  • Topic configuration
  • Establishing message ingestion and delivery within topics
  • Hands-on: Demonstrating Kafka resilience
  • Kafka performance: I/O, network, RAM, CPU, and OS
  • Kafka performance: additional factors
  • Hands-on: Modifying broker configurations

Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configuration

  • Configuring Landoop Kafka Topics UI, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
  • Sending and receiving messages via CLI, Java, and Spring Framework
  • Metrics and monitoring tools (Confluent Control Center, Elasticsearch, etc.)
  • Log files and offset management
  • High availability and disaster recovery
  • Achieving high availability through replication
  • Performance tuning for producers and consumers
  • Disaster recovery strategies
  • Failover control and data recovery
  • Connector setup
  • Implementing Kafka Connect
  • Kafka security features

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Requirements

  • Practical experience with Linux-based systems and command-line utilities
  • Knowledge of distributed systems principles
  • Foundational understanding of networking and system configuration

Target Audience

  • DevOps and SRE teams overseeing Kafka deployments
  • System administrators working with Confluent and Zookeeper
  • Kafka developers and architects designing scalable systems

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