Apache Kafka® Administration by Confluent

Learn to build and manage Kafka clusters using industry best practices developed by the world’s foremost Kafka experts.

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3 Days

Level

Beginner to Intermediate Level

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During this hands-on course you will learn how:

Kafka and the Confluent platform work, and how their main subsystems interact
To set up, manage, monitor and tune your cluster
To use industry best practices developed by the world’s foremost Apache Kafka® experts

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This course is designed for engineers, system administrators, and operations staff responsible for building, managing, monitoring, and tuning Kafka clusters

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Fundamentals of Apache Kafka®

Kafka as a Distributed Streaming Platform
The Distributed Log
Producer and Consumer Basics

Apache Kafka® Architecture

Kafka’s Commit Log
Replication for High Availability
Partitions and Consumer Groups for Scalability
Security Overview

Providing Durability

Installing and Running Kafka
Configuration Management
Monitoring
Log Retention and Compaction
Commissioning and Decommissioning Brokers

Managing a Cluster

Optimizing Apache Kafka® Performance

Monitoring, Testing, and Tuning Brokers and Kafka Clients
The Consumer Group Protocol

Apache Kafka® Security

Transport Encryption
Authentication
Securing Apache Kafka®
Migrating to a Secure Cluster

Data Pipelines with Kafka Connect

The Motivation for Kafka Connect
Types of Connectors
Kafka Connect Implementation
Standalone and Distributed Modes
Configuring the Connectors

Kafka in Production

Kafka Reference Architecture for Apache Kafka® and the Complete Confluent Platform
Capacity Planning
Multi Data Center Deployments

Hands-on

Throughout the course, hands-on exercises reinforce the topics being discussed.
Exercises include:

Using Kafka’s command-line tools
Automating configuration
Using Kafka’s administrative tools
Tuning Producer and Consumer performance
Securing the cluster
Building data pipelines with Kafka Connect

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Attendees should have a working knowledge of the Kafka architecture, either through:

Prior experience, or
By taking Confluent Fundamentals for Apache Kafka®, which can be accessed here.
It is also important to have strong knowledge of Linux/Unix and understand basic TCP/IP networking concepts. Familiarity with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is helpful.

Participants are required to provide a laptop computer with unobstructed internet access to fully participate in the class.

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