Overview

This document explains how to start using Kafka APIs after you purchase the CKafka service. After setting up a CKafka environment on an CVM instance, you need to download and decompress the Kafka installation file and perform simple testing on Kafka APIs.

Directions

Step 1. Install a JDK.

1. Check Java installation.

Open a terminal window and run this command:

java -version

If the output of the command is a Java version number, then Java is already installed in your system. If you have not installed Java yet, download and install a Java Development Kit (JDK)

2. Set up the Java environment.

Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable and point it to the Java installation directory on your machine.
For example, if you use Java JDK 1.8.0_20, the outputs on different operating systems are as follows:

Add the Java compiler path to the system path:

Use the java -version command to check your Java installation.

Step 2. Download the Kafka installation file.

Download and decompress the Kafka installation file.
Currently, CKafka is fully compatible with Kafka 0.9, 0.10, 1.1, and 2.4. We recommend that you download one of these versions. This document uses kafka_2.12-1.1.1 as an example.

Step 3. Test Kafka APIs.

1. Configure an ACL policy locally.

   1. In the ./config directory of the installation file, add the following content at the end of producer.properties and consumer.properties.

      security.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT 
      sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
      

   2. Create a file named ckafka_client_jaas.conf, and add the following content.

      KafkaClient {
          org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required
          username="yourinstance#yourusername"
          password="yourpassword";
      };
      

      Note：

      username is in the format of "instance ID#entered username", and password is the password set.

   3. In the ./bin directory of the installation file, add the statement of the full path of the JAAS file at the beginning of kafka-console-producer.sh and kafka-console-consumer.sh.

      export KAFKA_OPTS="-Djava.security.auth.login.config=****/config/ckafka_client_jaas.conf"
      

2. Go to the ./bin directory, and produce and consume a message via CLI commands.

   1. Open a terminal window to start a consumer.

      bash kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server XXXX:port --topic test --consumer.config ../config/consumer.properties
      

      Note：

      Replace XXXX:port with the domain name and port for public network access.
      

   2. Open another terminal window to start a producer.

      bash kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list XXXX:port --topic test --producer.config ../config/producer.properties
      

      Note：

      Replace XXXX:port with the domain name and port for public network access.
      

      Enter the content of the message and press Enter.

      Producing a message:
      

      Consuming a message:
      

3. In the message querying page of the CKafka console, query the message sent.
   
   The details of the message are as follows: