Apache Kafka - Intall & Setup in Windows

STEPS

1. Download kafka_2.12-2.5.0.zip and extract it [For ex: D:/BigData/kafka_2.12-2.5.0 ]
2. Kafka itself comes with zookeeper, so not necessary to download Zookeeper seperately.
3. Go to Command prompt D:/BigData/kafka_2.12-2.5.0

4. Start zookeeper
5. Start kafka
6. Create Topic
7. Start producer "client" to send data
8. Start consumer "server" to receive those data


Commands from 4th to 8th.

4.  D:\..> start zookeeper-server-start.bat D:\BigData\kafka_2.12-2.5.0\config\zookeeper.properties

5.  D:\..>start kafka-server-start.bat D:\BigData\kafka_2.12-2.5.0\config\server.properties

6.  D:\..>start kafka-topics.bat --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic testtopic

7.  D:\..>start kafka-console-producer.bat --broker-list localhost:9092 -topic testtopic

8. D:\..>start kafka-console-consumer.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 -topic testtopic

Now type something in 7th - CMD prompt.
See the received output in 8th CMD prompt.

All set go.

Note: First stop kafka and then zookeeper. else kafka will keep retrying..