Install Kafka
Prerequisites and Considerations
When installing Kafka, note the following prerequisites and considerations:
Kafka does not currently support user authentication and authorization.
The following underlying file systems are supported for use with Kafka:
EXT4: supported and recommended
EXT3: supported
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Caution Encrypted file systems such as SafenetFS are not supported for Kafka. Index file corruption can occur.
Installation
Install the Kafka RPMs or packages by completing the following steps.
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Hortonworks recommends avoiding using multiple brokers in a single node for Kafka.
However, if you need to install a multi-node cluster, use the following instructions
to install Kafka on another machine, make sure each |
Run the following command on each client cluster node and gateway node:
For RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux
yum install kafkaFor SLES
zypper install kafka
Check the JAVA_HOME environment variable. If it has not yet been set, add the following to the PATH variable:
export JAVA_HOME=<path of installed jdk version folder>