kafka-deb-packaging

Simple debian packaging for Apache Kafka and Zookeeper, great for Ubuntu 14.04LTS

Changelog

• 2015-Mar-18 : Updated for latest Kafka 0.8.2.1 and use sbt in system path.
• 2015-Mar-30 : Final Test, ready for git pull, packaged Zookeeper init.d!

Usage

$ ./dist_kakfa.sh

Sample Output

~/git/kafka-deb-packaging$ ./dist_kafka.sh

--2015-03-30 17:39:01--  http://mirror.sdunix.com/apache/kafka/0.8.2.1/kafka_2.10-0.8.2.1.tgz
Resolving mirror.sdunix.com (mirror.sdunix.com)... 74.206.97.82
Connecting to mirror.sdunix.com (mirror.sdunix.com)|74.206.97.82|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 16162559 (15M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘kafka_2.10-0.8.2.1.tgz’

100%[========================>] 16,162,559   340KB/s   in 44s

2015-03-30 17:39:45 (361 KB/s) - ‘kafka_2.10-0.8.2.1.tgz’ saved [16162559/16162559]

~/git/kafka-deb-packaging/tmp ~/git/kafka-deb-packaging
Created package {:path=>"kafka_0.8.2.1-5_all.deb"}
~/git/kafka-deb-packaging

Installation

$ dpkg -i kafka_0.8.2.1-10_all.deb

or if you have your own repo:

$ ~/gpg-agent-headless.sh
$ reprepro -b /var/repositories/ includedeb trusty $@
$ apt-get install kafka

Note: Installs and runs as user 'kafka'/'zookeeper'. Easy to change for your needs.

Post install

$ sudo update-rc.d zookeeper defaults 20

$ sudo update-rc.d kafka defaults 25

 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/kafka ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K25kafka -> ../init.d/kafka
   /etc/rc1.d/K25kafka -> ../init.d/kafka
   /etc/rc6.d/K25kafka -> ../init.d/kafka
   /etc/rc2.d/S25kafka -> ../init.d/kafka
   /etc/rc3.d/S25kafka -> ../init.d/kafka
   /etc/rc4.d/S25kafka -> ../init.d/kafka
   /etc/rc5.d/S25kafka -> ../init.d/kafka

System Check

$ /usr/lib/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --create --topic installtest --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1

Created topic "installtest".

Tested Platforms

• Ubuntu 14.04LTS, Amazon EC2