Kafka 0.7.x Cookbook

This downloads and compiles either the 0.7.1 or 0.7.2 versions of Apache Kafka. The latest version of Kafka is 0.8.x, but since they changed the wire protocol, some drivers aren't yet capable.

• This cookbook does not have any explicit dependencies, but java must be available.
• Uses upstart for service management.
• Zookeeper is not bundled.

A hearty shoutout to the following repos, from which much of this was inspired/stolen:

• https://github.com/Webtrends/kafka
• https://github.com/mthssdrbrg/kafka-cookbook
• https://github.com/rkrol/chef-kafka