Zero-to-Kakfa.md

1. Make a new cloud instance with ports 2181 and 9092 open.
2. Install Docker and Docker-Compose

   $ curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh
   $ sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.23.1/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
   $ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
   

3. Clone this repo:

   $ git clone https://github.com/wurstmeister/kafka-docker
   

4. In docker-compose-single-broker.yml, set KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME to be the IP of your instance.
5. Launch the Kafka app with Docker Compose

   $ docker-compose -f docker-compose-single-broker.yml up -d
   

That's it.

You can run test it with kafkacat (after brew install kafkacat):

Produce:

$ kafkacat -P -b your-instance-ip:9092 -P -t test

Consume:

$ kafkacat -P -b your-instance-ip:9092 -C -t test