This should give you an idea:
https://www.confluent.io/blog/design-and-deployment-considerations-for-deploying-apache-kafka-on-aws/
On 1/23/17, 10:25 PM, "Ewen Cheslack-Postava" <e...@confluent.io> wrote:
Smaller servers/instances work fine for tests, as long as the workload is
scaled down as well. Most memory on a Kafka broker will end up dedicated to
page cache. For, e.g., 1GB of RAM just consider that you probably won't be
leaving much room to cache the data so your performance may suffer a bit.
-Ewen
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Laxmi Narayan NIT DGP <nit.dgp...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Hi ,
> what is min hardware requirement for kafka ?
>
> I see min ram size for production is recommended is 32GB.
>
> what can be issue with 8 GB ram and for test purpose i was planning to use
>
> some 1gb or 4gb aws machine, is it safe to run in 1gb machine for few
days?
>
> For log write i have big disk.
>
>
> *Regards,*
> *Laxmi Narayan Patel*
> *MCA NIT Durgapur (2011-2014)*
> *Mob:- 9741292048,8345847473 *
>
