Quick setup guide for kaf, kafkacat, and Node-RED

1. Useful tools

2. kaf

3. Install it
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infinimesh/kaf/master/godownloader.sh
| BINDIR=$HOME/bin bash

4. Configure it
~/.kaf/config
current-cluster: dale
clusters:
- name: dale
brokers:
- bootstrap_host:port
SASL:
mechanism: PLAIN
username: token
password: API_KEY
TLS:
cafile: /Users/dalelane/dev/qp/auth/es-cert.pem
insecure: false
security-protocol: SASL_SSL

5. Configure it
$ kaf config use-cluster dale
Switched to cluster "dale".

6. Configure it
$ kaf config use-cluster dale
Switched to cluster "dale".
$ kaf config select-cluster
Use the arrow keys to navigate: ↓ ↑ → ←
? Select cluster:
▸ dale
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tim
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↓ matt

7. Produce with it
$ echo "Hello World" | kaf produce DEMO

8. Produce with it
$ echo "Hello World" | kaf produce DEMO
Sent record to partition 0 at offset 0.

9. Produce with it
$ echo "Hello World" | kaf produce DEMO
Sent record to partition 0 at offset 0.
$ echo -n "Bonjour le monde" | kaf produce DEMO
Sent record to partition 0 at offset 1.

10. Produce with it
$ echo "Hello World" | kaf produce DEMO
Sent record to partition 0 at offset 0.
$ echo -n "Bonjour le monde" | kaf produce DEMO
Sent record to partition 0 at offset 1.
$ cat README.md | kaf produce DEMO
Sent record to partition 0 at offset 2.

11. Consume with it
$ kaf consume DEMO

12. Consume with it
$ kaf consume DEMO
Partition: 0
Offset: 0
Timestamp: 2019-07-11 19:41:10.178 +0100 BST
Hello World
Partition: 0
Offset: 1
Timestamp: 2019-07-11 19:42:36.479 +0100 BST
Bonjour le monde
Partition: 0
Offset: 2
Timestamp: 2019-07-11 19:43:29.248 +0100 BST
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13. Consume with it
$ kaf consume DEMO -f

14. What else?
$ kaf topic describe DEMO
Name: DEMO
Internal: false
Compacted: false
Partitions:
Partition High Watermark Leader Replicas ISR
--------- -------------- ------ -------- ---
0 3 2 [0 1 2] [0 1 2]
Config:
Name Value ReadOnly Sensitive
---- ----- -------- ---------
min.insync.replicas 2 false false
retention.ms 604800000 false false
message.format.version 2.2-IV1 false false

15. What else?
$ kaf topic create ANOTHER
Created topic ANOTHER.
$ kaf topic ls
NAME PARTITIONS REPLICAS
ANOTHER 1 1
DEMO 1 3
$ kaf topic delete ANOTHER
Deleted topic ANOTHER.

16. kafkacat

17. Install it
$ brew install kafkacat

18. Configure it
~/.config/kafkacat.conf
bootstrap.servers=bootstrap_host:port
ssl.ca.location=/Users/dalelane/dev/qp/auth/es-cert.pem
security.protocol=sasl_ssl
sasl.mechanisms=PLAIN
sasl.username=token
sasl.password=API_KEY

19. Produce with it
$ kafkacat -P -t DEMO

20. Produce with it
$ kafkacat -P -t DEMO
Hello World

21. Produce with it
$ kafkacat -P -t DEMO
Hello World
Bonjour le monde

22. Produce with it
$ kafkacat -P -t DEMO
Hello World
Bonjour le monde
$ kafkacat -P -t DEMO README.md

23. Produce with it
$ kafkacat -P -t DEMO
Hello World
Bonjour le monde
$ kafkacat -P -t DEMO README.md
$ kafkacat -P -t DEMO -H mykey=myvalue README.md

24. Consume with it
$ kafkacat -C -t DEMO

25. Consume with it
$ kafkacat -C -t DEMO
Hello World
Bonjour le monde
% Reached end of topic DEMO [0] at offset 2

26. Consume with it
$ kafkacat -C -t DEMO -f
'NEXT MESSAGEn============nheaders:n%hnmessage:n%snn'

27. Consume with it
$ kafkacat -C -t DEMO -f
'NEXT MESSAGEn============nheaders:n%hnmessage:n%snn'
NEXT MESSAGE
============
headers:
message:
Hello World
NEXT MESSAGE
============
headers:
mykey=myvalue
message:
Bonjour le monde

28. What else?
$ kafkacat -L
Metadata for all topics (from broker -1:
sasl_ssl://9.30.249.220:31250/bootstrap):
3 brokers:
broker 0 at 9.30.249.220:31203 (controller)
broker 2 at 9.30.249.220:32599
broker 1 at 9.30.249.220:30797
1 topics:
topic "DEMO" with 1 partitions:
partition 0, leader 1, replicas: 1,2,0, isrs: 1,2,0

29. Node-RED

30. Install it
$ sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red

31. Run it
$ export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include
$ export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
$ node-red

32. Add Kafka nodes to it

33. Consume with it

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39. Produce with it

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