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confluent local start

Description

Start Confluent Platform services. For a list of available services, see Confluent Platform Packages.

Important

The confluent local commands are intended for a single-node development environment and are not suitable for a production environment. The data that are produced are transient and are intended to be temporary. For production-ready workflows, see Install and Upgrade Confluent Platform.

confluent local start [<service>] --path <path-to-confluent>

Flags

Tip

You must either specify the path for each Confluent CLI confluent local command invocation, export the path as an environment variable for each terminal session, or set the path to your Confluent Platform installation in your shell profile. For example:

cat ~/.bash_profile
export CONFLUENT_HOME=<path-to-confluent>
export PATH="${CONFLUENT_HOME}/bin:$PATH"

Name, shorthand	Description
--path <path-to-confluent>	Path to Confluent Platform install directory.
-h, --help	Print command information.

Positional arguments

Name, shorthand	Default	Description
<service>	All services	The service name. If specified, it starts the service and all dependencies.

Examples

• Start all available services:

  confluent local start
  

  Your output should resemble:

  Starting zookeeper
  zookeeper is [UP]
  Starting kafka
  kafka is [UP]
  Starting schema-registry
  schema-registry is [UP]
  Starting kafka-rest
  kafka-rest is [UP]
  Starting connect
  connect is [UP]
  Starting ksql-server
  ksql-server is [UP]
  Starting control-center
  control-center is [UP]
  

• Start Apache Kafka® and ZooKeeper as its dependency:

  confluent local start kafka
  

  Your output should resemble:

  Starting zookeeper
  zookeeper is [UP]
  Starting kafka
  kafka is [UP]