Downloading

wget "https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/1.1.0/kafka_2.11-1.1.0.tgz"

tar -xzf kafka_2.11-1.1.0.tgz

Starting Zookeeper and kafka

bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties

bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties

Create topic

bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test

List topics

bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

or

bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181

Send some messages to Kafka

bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test

or

bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic test

Consume messages from Kafka

bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test --from-beginning