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Duration 21 hours (3 days)
Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of Confluent Apache Kafka Architecture and Configuration
- The role of Kafka in contemporary data pipelines
- Key distinctions between Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka
- Essential components: producers, consumers, brokers, topics, and partitions
- Deployment models for Kafka clusters and considerations for scaling
Module 2: Configuring Zookeeper Quorum
- Introduction to Zookeeper
- The function of Zookeeper within a Kafka cluster
- Determining Zookeeper Quorum size
- Configuring Zookeeper settings
- Setting up SSH on server environments
- Practical exercise: Configuring Zookeeper as both a team and a service
- Utilizing the Zookeeper Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Practical exercise: Configuring the Zookeeper Quorum
- Understanding the Zookeeper internal file system
- Performance variables that impact Zookeeper
- Demonstration of management tools, including Zookeeper and Zoonavigator
Module 3: Configuring the Kafka Cluster
- Foundational Kafka concepts
- General Kafka configuration settings
- Practical exercise: Configuring Kafka brokers
- Practical exercise: Running Kafka commands
- Practical exercise: Setting up a Multi-Broker Kafka Cluster
- Practical exercise: Testing the Kafka cluster
- Verifying connectivity to your Kafka cluster
- Advertised.listeners configuration: a critical setting
- Topic-specific configurations
- Settings for downloading and ingesting messages within topics
- Practical exercise: Illustrating Kafka resilience
- Kafka performance: Input/Output (I/O)
- Kafka performance: Network (RED)
- Kafka performance: RAM
- Kafka performance: CPU
- Kafka performance: Operating System (OS)
- Kafka performance: Additional factors
- Practical exercise: Modifying Kafka broker configurations
Module 4: Advanced Kafka Configurations
- Configuring the Landoop Kafka topic interface, Confluent REST Proxy, and Confluent Schema Registry
- Transmitting and receiving messages using CLI, Java, and the Spring framework
- Monitoring metrics and utilizing tools such as Confluent Control Center and Elasticsearch
- Managing log files and offsets
- High availability and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability via replication
- Optimizing producer and consumer performance
- Disaster recovery strategies
- Controlling failover and managing data recovery
- Connector configurations
- Implementing Kafka Connect
- Exploring Kafka security features
Summary and Future Directions
Requirements
- Knowledge of distributed systems and messaging principles
- Proficiency with the Linux command line
- Fundamental understanding of networking and system administration
Intended Audience
- System administrators
- DevOps engineers
- Platform and infrastructure teams
Testimonials (2)
Possibility to perform independent exercises in the training environment.
Tomasz - PKO Zycie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen S.A.
Course - Kafka for Administrators
Very practical examples. The trainer has tried to keep a pace where everybody is able to go with even though the group was quite inhomogeneous regarding the knowhow. He has provided a lot of support to basically everybody who asked for it :)
