Kafka development environment

In order to have Apache Kafka running locally for development purposes.

Ensure Vagrant is installed on the development machine as described here.

Then, execute the go.sh script from this directory.

The script downloads and launches a Vagrant box.
Then copies the setup.sh script to it and executes it.
In turn, setup.sh downloads and launches Apache Kafka and then creates a topic for Sentinel to send messages to.
The Virtual Machine exposes zookeeper and kafka ports (2181 and 9092 respectively) on the host running the Virtual Machine.

# install, configure and run kafka
sh go.sh

# ssh into the kafka box
vagrant ssh

# start the message consumer for the k8s topic
sh kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic k8s --from-beginning

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