Install latest/beta of kafka

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.


Install using the command line

sudo snap install kafka --beta

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kafka is only available on the unstable beta channel. It could break and change often.

Channel Version Published

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform

Kafka is generally used for two broad classes of applications:

  • Building real-time streaming data pipelines that reliably get data between systems or applications
  • Building real-time streaming applications that transform or react to the streams of data

Details for kafka

License
  • unset

Last updated
  • 28 June 2019 - latest/beta
  • 6 July 2023 - rock/edge

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Install kafka on your Linux distribution

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Where people are using kafka

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