By abelwingnut
Hello, all,
I’m new to Ubuntu, Kafka, and Zookeeper, and this has me puzzled.
From everything I’ve read, Zookeeper is part and parcel to Kafka. However, the tutorial here (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-apache-kafka-on-ubuntu-18-04) doesn’t install Zookeeper before installing Kafka. And what’s even crazier is that Kafka works per the tests within the tutorial.
How can this be? What am I missing? Is this some special case and I need to install Zookeeper at this point, or was Zookeeper silently installed somehow? I see Zookeeper-related services in /usr/share that were not mentioned in the tutorial, so that suggests Kafka installed some aspects of Zookeeper. Maybe it installs a barebones version?
Thanks in advance! Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m an idiot beginner to all this, so apologies if this is all quite stupid.
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
Hey Friends,
zookeeper is in default kafka package. it is used for controlling of data handling. the kafka data network route through only zookeeper daemons.
Hey friend,
It looks to me like zookeeper is part of the package downloaded. If you’ve followed the tutorial then you can find the zookeeper startup script at /home/kafka/kafka/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh. Digging into that may tell you more about what is where.
Jarland
Become a contributor for community
Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.
DigitalOcean Documentation
Full documentation for every DigitalOcean product.
Resources for startups and SMBs
The Wave has everything you need to know about building a business, from raising funding to marketing your product.
The developer cloud
Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.
Get started for free
Sign up and get $200 in credit for your first 60 days with DigitalOcean.*
*This promotional offer applies to new accounts only.