How to install Kafka on Windows?

Question

I\'m trying to install Kafka message queue on Windows for testing purposes (not for production).

I found this article on how to install Apache Kafka

Answer 1

You will probably find that Kafka comes with Windows .bat files under the bin folder to help you run Kafka under windows. However, those bat files are not updated since version 0.8.0 and some of Kafka's logic has changed (regarding topics, etc.).

I have tried two ways to solve this problem. One is to use Cygwin or MinGW to simulate Linux environment and run the Linux shell script, but there would be tons of other problems related to path names. The other solution, which is simpler and come with less trouble, is to use the corrected version of Windows bat files.

Please refer to this blog post.