Steps to run Kafka in a Windows PC along with Creating a Topic, Publishing to and Consuming a Topic and Deleting logs

KafkaServerExecutionInWindows.txt

Original Documentation for download and steps:
https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart

Download latest version of kafka server:
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/

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Download and extract kafka to any directory (mine is installed in C:\kafka)
Open command prompt from within this folder ('kafka' in my case)
That's it. Execute the following respective commands.

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#run zookeeper
bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat config\zookeeper.properties

#run kafka server
bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat config\server.properties

#create topic
bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --create --topic <topicname> --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

#view topic stats
bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --describe --topic <topicname> --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

#publish to topic
bin\windows\kafka-console-producer.bat --topic <topicname> --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

#consume from topic
bin\windows\kafka-console-consumer.bat --topic <topicname> --from-beginning --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

#delete topic logs
rm -rf \logs\kafka-logs \logs\zookeeper