Kafka CLI Tools

It is a collection of tools to interact with kafka cluster through the terminal.

• kafkacat
• confluent community tools
• project location: kafka-cli

⚠️ Run these commands inside the root folder.

Create an alias for kafka-cli:

alias kafka-cli='docker run --rm -it --network kafka-sandbox_network kafka-cli:latest '

To permanently add the alias to your shell (~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file):

echo "alias kafka-cli='docker run --rm -it --network kafka-sandbox_network kafka-cli:latest '" >> ~/.zshrc

Create the docker image:

cd kafka-cli
docker build -t kafka-cli:latest .
kafka-cli