Apache Flink and Apache Kafka

This project is use a simple Flink job to show how to integrate Apache Kafka to Flink using the Flink Connector for Kafka.

Start Kafka and Create Topic

curl -O http://www.us.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.9.0.0/kafka_2.11-0.9.0.0.tgz
tar -xzf kafka_2.11-0.9.0.0.tgz
cd kafka_2.11-0.9.0.0

Kafka uses ZooKeeper, if you do not have Zookeeper running, you can start it using the following command:

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

Start a Kafka broker by running the following command in a new terminal:

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

In another terminal, run the following command to create a Kafka topic called flink-demo:

./bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic flink-demo

In the project folder:

$ mvn clean package

And run the Flink Consumer:

$ mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=com.grallandco.demos.ReadFromKafka

and Producer:

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=com.grallandco.demos.WriteToKafka

You should see messages printed in the Consumer console.

You can run this application directly in a Flink cluster.