Install Kafka on OSX via Homebrew

install-kafka.txt

$> brew cask install java

$> brew install kafka

$> vim ~/bin/kafka
# ~/bin/kafka
#!/bin/bash

zkServer start
kafka-server-start.sh /usr/local/etc/kafka/server.properties

$> chmod +x ~/bin/kafka



Homebrew has a services manager and can manage its own Java installation, so an easier way to do this is just

# this will install java 1.8, zookeeper, and kafka
brew install kafka

# this will run ZK and kafka as services
brew services start zookeeper
brew services start kafka
That's it. If you want to stop Kafka, just run the brew services commands in reverse:

brew services stop kafka
brew services stop zookeeper