How to install Kafka Confluent on Mac
Confluent is a Data Streaming Platform based on Kafka that comes with super cool features such as Rest API, extensive connectors and stream processing layer
In this tutorial, I’m going to explain installing Confluent platform
Prerequisite
Before starting to download Confluent, JDK 8 should be installed to your computer
Let’s start step by step
Step 1- Downloading Confluent platform
Open the Confluent website and go to installation page. Depending on the which Confluent version that you select, you can run below command
curl -O http://packages.confluent.io/archive/5.1/confluent-5.1.0-2.11.zip
Step 2- Extracting the zipped file
unzip confluent-5.1.0–2.11.zip
Step 3- Installing the source connector
./confluent-hub install \ — no-prompt confluentinc/kafka-connect-datagen:0.1.0
Step 4- Starting the Confluent platform
./confluent start
This command is going to start all the Confluent Platform components
Step 5- Opening the web interface to see whether the application be able to install correctly
Final Words
In this tutorial, you read some basic installation steps to Mac computer. Confluent is a good starting point to learn Data Streaming
