A command-line interface for interaction with Apache Kafka
A Commandline interface for Apache Kafka which provides useful features adapted from kubectl for Kubernetes.
Multiple kafka brokers can be configured in a config file and the active broker is also persisted within the config.
In addition kafkactl supports auto-completion for its commands as well as topic names.
Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install kafkactl
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The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 9 with the following command: