Given that Kafka exercises ZooKeeper, we can start the ZooKeeper’s server. One can use the convince script packaged with Kafka to get a crude but effective single-node ZooKeeper instance:
bin/zookeeper-server-start.shconfig/zookeeper.properties
Now the Kafka server can start:
bin/Kafka-server-start.shconfig/server.properties
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