Installation
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Kafka Python
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The Kafka Manager depends on the `kafka-python <https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python>`_ library to communicate with Apache Kafka. To install Kafka Manager and its dependencies, use pip:

.. code:: bash

    pip install kafka-python

The following command will install `kafka-python <https://kafka-python.readthedocs.io/en/master/index.html>`_ package, which provides the necessary functionality for:

* Connecting to Kafka Brokers.
* Producing messages to Kafka Topics.
* Consuming messages from Kafka Topics.

Kafka Manager
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Install `kafka-manager <https://github.com/anshumanpattnaik/kafka-manager>`_ using the following pip package:

.. code:: bash

    pip install kafka-manager