Apache Kafka

Distributed event streaming platform

🐧 Linux🍎 Mac🪟 Windows

Reviewed: 2026-06|Tested on: Kubernetes 1.29 · Terraform 1.8 · Ubuntu 22.04

What is this?

Kafka streams events between systems at high throughput — used for logs, metrics, and data pipelines.

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Step 01

Install Apache Kafka

Linux

1docker run -d --name kafka -p 9092:9092 apache/kafka:latest

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Step 02

Linux

1docker exec kafka kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --list