Hi all, I have been using Vagrant <http://www.vagrantup.com/> a lot recently and had the need/desire to build an Apache Kafka cluster with Vagrant for some recent client work.
Vagrant allows you to script virtual machines for easy spin up and tear down for complete environments for development and testing. I posted a patch for 0.8.1 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1173 and also made it available for the existing 0.8.0 release https://github.com/stealthly/kafka so folks could use it for the development and testing if they wanted today. If your interested in giving it a try I wrote up a quick how to http://allthingshadoop.com/2013/12/07/using-vagrant-to-get-up-and-running-with-apache-kafka/(which is also in the new vagrant folder's readme file) take a look and let me know, feedback always welcomed. Thanks! /******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/
