https://naoko.github.io/tags/kaf/Recent content in Kaf on the art of simplicityHugoen-usSat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://naoko.github.io/posts/2020-01-25-kafka-cli-kaf/Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://naoko.github.io/posts/2020-01-25-kafka-cli-kaf/<p>Kafka is super popular and powerful data streaming platform but I&rsquo;m surprised by lack of easy cli tool.</p> <p>To find out version, there is no such thing as <code>kafka --version</code> you do:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>$ find /opt/kafka/libs/ -name kafka_<span style="color:#f1fa8c">\*</span> | head -1 </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>/opt/kafka/libs/kafka_2.13-2.4.0-test-sources.jar </span></span></code></pre></div><p>where 2.13 is scala version and 2.4.0 is kafka version.</p> <p>One tool that I played with is lovely called <a href="https://github.com/birdayz/kaf">kaf</a>, &ldquo;Modern CLI for Kafka&rdquo;.</p> <p>to list topics, you do:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#282a36;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 </span></span></code></pre></div><p>whereas with kaf you do:</p>