0. Installation reference

Note that the new version of Kafka does not need to install zookeeper separately. You can directly use the self-contained one. Of course, you can also install it separately

1. Error message

Kafka startup error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

2. Cause of error

Zookeeper was not started before Kafka was started

3. Solution

Start zookeeper first and then Kafka again

4. Start command

4.1 to Kafka installation directory

cd /usr/src/kafka_2.12-3.1.0/

4.2 start zookeeper (the latest version of the zookeeper from Kafka is used here)

bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties 

4.3 start Kafka

bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties

4.4 close Kafka

bin/kafka-server-stop.sh config/server.properties