gokafka-workshop

This is a talk about golang and kafka prepared for the golang sydney meetup , run the following command to get everything

go get -u github.com/johnnyluo/gokafka-workshop

• Please install latest golang, refer to Getting Started
• We will be running a one node kafka in docker composer on your local machine, if you don't have docker composer setup , please follow Install Docker Compose , to set it up.

You will need the following libraries in this workshop

• github.com/Shopify/sarama

go get -u github.com/Shopify/sarama

• github.com/bsm/sarama-cluster

go get -u github.com/bsm/sarama-cluster

Run kafka in docker

• open a terminal
• go to kafka-local folder

docker-compose up -d

If you are comfortable to cli tools, then you can go here , otherwise follow the following steps to setup your local Kafka manager through the UI.

setup kafka manager

• Open a browser , go to http://localhost:9000
• You should see a screen like this
• Click Cluster->Add Cluster
• Click "Save" button
• Add topic