Hello all, My name is Michael Hall, I work at Canonical on the community team, and recently I've been working with the snapcraft[1] developers to help upstreams learn about and start using our new packaging format.
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours looking at Kafka and building an example .snap package for it. It now works, at least for the basics, and I was able to follow the quickstart guide[2] after installing it. I'd like to make this a contribution to Kafka, and get some developer help to finish it up. For anybody who wants to try it, you can download it[3] and install it with "sudo snap install --dangerous kafka_0.10.1_amd64.snap". It will automatically start zookeeper and kafka-server as systemd services, and makes the command "/snap/bin/kafka.topics" available to call from the command line. I have attached the snapcraft.yaml used to build the snap, if you're on Ubuntu 16.04 or later (or run it in a VM/docker) you can build it yourself by calling "snapcraft" from the same directory as this file. [1] http://snapcraft.io/ [2] https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart [3] http://people.ubuntu.com/~mhall119/snaps/kafka_0.10.1_amd64.snap -- Michael Hall mhall...@gmail.com
snapcraft.yaml
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