CLI Tools You Need to Know for Your Everyday Kafka

Apache Kafka is all over the place! Now you can begin using brokers, topics, and clusters. If you, like many other users, prefer the terminal to the graphical interface or web consoles, you should be familiar with these CLI tools to increase your productivity. It is a collection of applications that can assist you with everything from creating a cluster to managing your Kafka Connect connectors or Kafka users.

  Join us as we go over some of the most practical CLIs for Kafka-related tasks as well as some of the fundamental commands that will help you out. Starting with the scripts that are part of the Apache Kafka distribution, we'll move on to more general tools like kcat for Kafka and kcctl for Kafka Connect. Last but not least, if you are using Kubernetes, we will discuss tools for managing customer resources, such as kubectl and strimzi-kafka-cli.