emacs-kafka

A Kafka CLI porcelain for Emacs, inspired by Magit.

Starting a local kafka-broker, zookeeper, and console consumer/producer in emacs comint modes.

Using magit-popup to play around kafka-topics, consumer-groups CLI commands.

Requirements

• Install Magit Popup
• Download Kafka

Magit popup can also be installed through Melpa

Install

Clone the repository and append the following in your ~/.emacs

```
(add-to-list "/path/to/emacs-kafka")
(require 'kafka-cli)
```

Replace /path/to/ with the location where you cloned it.

Start the services

• Customize the variables
  1. kafka-cli-bin-path
  2. kafka-cli-config-path

(setq kafka-cli-bin-path "/path/to/kafka-0.10/bin")
(setq kafka-cli-config-path "/path/to/kafka-0.10/config")

By default kafka and zookeeper url points to localhost, to configure that

(setq kafka-url "hostname:port")
(setq zookeeper-url "hostname:port")

• M-x run-zookeeper RET Should start the zookeeper service in localhost:2181

• M-x run-kafkabroker RET Should start a local broker running in localhost:9092

Configure what topics to consume

(setq kafka-consumer-whitelist-topics "path.path.topic")

• M-x run-kafkaconsumer RET Should start a console consumer You can run M-x list-processes RET, to see if these processes are running.

Kafka CLI

• M-x kafka-cli RET, Gives a popup with different options dealing with topics.
• Supports listing, deleting, adding, editing, describing topics.
• Supports overview of kafka, zk, consumer processes in a custom mode.