Kafka Bash Completion

This project provides bash command autocompletion for the following Kafka commands:

• kafka-console-consumer.sh
• kafka-console-producer.sh
• kafka-topics.sh

Prerequisites

This requires the bash-completion package to be installed

Installation globally

# Clone the repository 
git clone https://github.com/monepic/kafka-bash-completion && cd kafka-bash-completion

# These need to be run as root (or with sudo as shown below)
# Install with make 
sudo make install

# Alternatively install with provided build script
sudo ./build  --install

Installation for a single user

• build the file with make or ./build
• source the generated file in your .bashrc file . <path_to_kafka_bash_completion_file>

Usage

After restarting your terminal (or soucing the kafka-bash-completion script) you should be able to generate completion suggestions for the listed kafka commands by pressing the <Tab> key once or more.

Suggestions for the --topic and --group options are queried from Kafka (which isn't particularly quick)

Environment variables KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVER and KAFKA_BROKER_LIST can be set in order to populate suggestions for the --bootstrap-server and --broker-list option values.

They are also used as a fallback when trying to query Kafka for groups and topics.