This Ansible Role aims to install and configure Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper using the Confluent package.

All configurations can be passed through vars, you can see the list of necessary vars at defaults and customize them as you wish.

Ansible 2.2+, Python and Pip.

pip install ansible>=2.2.0

After installing Ansible, you must install a Java role, and use it in your playbook. Kafka needs a JVM to run.

It's strongly recommended (as you can see here) to run the latest version of Oracle JDK 1.8 (Java 8) or Java 11.

Requirements includes Ansiblebit Oracle Java role, which can be easily installed through:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yaml

The test suite is currently executing against Ansible 2.9.6 (as you can see here), inside Docker containers running both major Python versions (2 and 3).

For further information on the Docker images being used to run containers on the CI, take a look at docker-ansible

Family	Distribution	Version	Test Status
Alpine	Alpine Linux	3.8+
RedHat	CentOS	6
RedHat	CentOS	7
Debian	Debian	8 (Jessie)
Debian	Debian	9 (Stretch)
Debian	Debian	10 (Buster)
RedHat	Fedora	27 Cloud
Debian	Ubuntu	16.04 (Xenial)
Debian	Ubuntu	18.04 (Bionic)
Debian	Ubuntu	20.04 (Bionic)

---
- hosts: kafka,zookeeper

  vars:
    dst_path: "/opt"
    local_path: "/tmp"
    confluent_version: "5.4.0"
    scala_version: "2.12"
    confluent_distribution: "confluent-community"
    log_basepath: "/var/log"
    data_basepath: "/var/data"
    initscripts_path: "/usr/sbin"
    conf_dest: "/etc/config"
    # Oracle Java necessary vars. IF you are using ansiblebit.oracle-java
    oracle_java_set_as_default: yes
    oracle_java_version: 8

  roles:
    - ansiblebit.oracle-java
    - macunha1.confluent-kafka

---
- hosts: kafka,zookeeper

  roles:
    - ansiblebit.oracle-java
    - macunha1.confluent-kafka

[kafka]
192.168.50.3

[zookeeper]
192.168.50.3

• Ansible - Simple IT Automation
• Confluent Kafka Package - Kafka for the Enterprise

• Feel free to fill an issue with feature request(s), or to send me a Pull request, I will be happy to collaborate.
• If this role didn't work for you, or if you found some bug during the execution, let me know.

Thanks to these amazing contributors for making this role better