Creation of Kafka Publisher/Producer using Spring Boot

Prerequisites(Avoid below if using docker compose)

• Install Kafka from official page -https://kafka.apache.org/downloads
• Instal Confluent Kafka from official page -https://www.confluent.io/installation/
• Install Offset Explorer

Steps to setup

Kafka Commands

• Start Zookeeper Server

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

• Start Kafka Server / Broker

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

• Or avoid above two steps and start both Zookeeper and Kafka Server in one command

docker compose up

• Launch the spring boot application
• Use the endpoints and call them in any og the API testing tools like Postman, Insomnia, Bruno etc.