Getting Started

This document describes how to install and configure kafka-tools.

Prerequisites

Software that must be installed:

In addition, you will need to run it on a host that has:

  • Access to the Zookeeper ensemble for the Kafka cluster.
  • SSH access to the Kafka brokers (with credentials preferably loaded into ssh-agent).

Quick Install

  1. Download the Kafka binaries from https://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html.
  2. Use pip to install the kafka-tools packge from pypi.

Source Install

  1. Download the Kafka binaries from https://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html.
  2. Clone the kafka-tools repository from https://github.com/linkedin/kafka-tools
  3. Run the tests using tox.
  4. Install kafka-tools using setup.py.