component-kafka

Version 1.1-41p

Installs and configures Apache Kafka

Features

• Install and configure Apache Kafka on multiple compute
• Install and configure Kafka Manager web UI

Configurations

• Apache Kafka 0.8.2.1, Amazon Linux (us-east-1/ami-1ba18d72), AWS EC2 m1.small, ec2-user
• Apache Kafka 0.8.2.1, CentOS 6.5 (us-east-1/ami-bc8131d4), AWS EC2 m1.small, root

Pre-requisites

• Configured Cloud Account a in chosen environment
• Either installed Chef on target compute OR launch under root
• Internet access from target compute:
  • Apache Kafka and Kafka Manager distribution
  • S3 bucket with Chef recipes: qubell-starter-kit-artifacts
  • If Chef is not installed: please install Chef 10.16.2 using http://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh bash <($WGET -O - http://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh) -v $CHEF_VERSION

Implementation notes

• Installation is based on Chef recipes from https://github.com/qubell-bazaar/cookbook-qubell-kafka_component

Configuration parameters

• input.recipe-url: URL to Apache Kafka chef recipe repo
• input.kafka-port: Listen port for Apache Kafka service
• input.manager-port: Listen port for Kafka Manager web UI
• input.manager-url: URL to Kafka Manger archive repo