Kafka CLI Cheatsheet

commands.sh

# Selecting a server

kafka-topics --bootstrap-server kafka:9092
kafka-console-producer --broker-list kafka:9092
kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server kafka:9092

# Managing topics

kafka-topics --list
kafka-topics --describe --topic topic.name
kafka-topics --create --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1 --topic topic.name
kafka-topics --delete --topic topic.name

# producing messages

kafka-console-producer --topic topic.name

# consuming messages

kafka-console-consumer --topic topic.name