Using Kafka operations

With the Confluent Platform installed, the administration, operation, and monitoring of Kafka become very simple. Let's review how to operate Kafka with the Confluent Platform.

Getting ready

For this recipe, Confluent should be installed, up, and running.

How to do it...

The commands in this section should be executed from the directory where the Confluent Platform is installed:

1. To start ZooKeeper, Kafka, and the Schema Registry with one command, run:

$ confluent start schema-registry 

The output of this command should be:

Starting zookeeper...