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Course Outline
Kafka Administration Essentials
- Where Kafka fits in a modern data platform and typical production responsibilities
- Core concepts for operators: brokers, topics, partitions, offsets, consumer groups
- Replication fundamentals: leaders and followers, in-sync replicas, availability trade-offs
- Kafka operational highlights and common terminology used in runbooks
KRaft Mode and Cluster Design
- KRaft basics: controllers, metadata quorum, elections, and why it matters operationally
- Deployment planning: sizing for throughput, partitions, retention, and growth
- Node roles and layouts: combined vs dedicated controllers, fault domain considerations
- Lab: inspect KRaft metadata, validate quorum health, and interpret controller logs
Installation, Configuration, and Day-to-Day Operations
- Installation approaches (packages, tarball, containers) and what to standardize in enterprise environments
- Core broker configuration that impacts reliability: listeners, replication, log directories, retention
- Safe service operations: startup order, graceful shutdown, and validation checks
- Lab: deploy a multi-node cluster, verify broker registration, and confirm baseline produce and consume
Managing Topics, Partitions, and Data Placement
- Topic lifecycle using the Kafka CLI: create, describe, update configs, delete
- Choosing partitions and replication factors for real workloads, including common anti-patterns
- Reassignments and balancing: when to move partitions and how to verify progress safely
- Lab: create topics, trigger a partition reassignment, simulate a broker outage, and confirm recovery
Securing Kafka for Production
- TLS for client and inter-broker traffic: certificates, trust chains, and validation steps
- Authentication with SASL: selecting common mechanisms and avoiding misconfiguration
- Authorization with ACLs: least-privilege patterns for admins, producers, and consumers
- Lab: enable TLS and SASL, validate client connectivity, and apply ACLs for application roles
Observability, Reliability, and Troubleshooting
- Monitoring essentials: controller health, under-replicated partitions, request latency, disk and network saturation
- Logs and metrics: reading broker logs and exposing metrics via JMX exporter to common observability stacks
- Operational playbooks: rolling restarts, safe config changes, handling disk-full and ISR issues
- Lab: build a minimal alert set, diagnose a degraded cluster, and restore healthy replication
Upgrades and Disaster Recovery Readiness
- Upgrade planning for Kafka: compatibility checks, staging, and rollback approach
- Backups and recovery expectations: what can be backed up, what cannot, and configuration recovery basics
- Cross-cluster replication overview and when to use MirrorMaker 2 for DR and migrations
- Wrap-up: operational checklist, handover artifacts, and next steps for production rollout
Requirements
- An understanding of basic Linux administration (users, services, files, permissions)
- Experience with TCP/IP networking concepts (DNS, ports, firewalls, load balancers)
- Basic scripting experience (Bash, PowerShell, or similar) for routine operational tasks
Audience
- Kafka administrators and platform engineers responsible for operating Kafka clusters
- Site reliability engineers and DevOps engineers supporting streaming platforms
- Infrastructure and operations teams deploying new KRaft-based Kafka clusters or migrating from ZooKeeper
21 Hours
Delivery Options
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- Delivered online, onsite/classroom or hybrid by experts sharing real world experience
Private Group Prices RRP from €6840 online delivery, based on a group of 2 delegates, €2160 per additional delegate (excludes any certification / exam costs). We recommend a maximum group size of 12 for most learning events.
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Testimonials (5)
Possibility to perform independent exercises in the training environment.
Tomasz - PKO Zycie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen S.A.
Course - Kafka for Administrators
To the point, proper pace (bash basics required though)
Krzysztof - Agora SA
Course - Kafka for Administrators
Trainer accepts questions at any time of the session, even if the subject was taught few days past.
GOODLUCK MASHIMBA - Tanzania Revenue Authority
Course - Kafka for Administrators
Nice presentation skill
Md Maruf Hossain - ATOS PGS sp. z o.o.
Course - Kafka for Administrators
Grate skills, examples, very good exercises
