You will receive an email with a link to download, together with a license key expiring in 2023
Click the download link from mail and download the package
Unzip the package to a file system
Configure
Update the license key in \kafkawize-communityedition-4.5.2\conf\application_kafkawize.properties for property kafkawize.license.key
Leave the other property kafkawize.org.name=MyOrganization unchanged
Metastore is configured by default to a filesystem directory spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:file …
To change the metastore to an rdbms like MySql or Postgres, sample configuration is available in the same file application_kafkawize.properties. Uncomment those properties
Start Kafkawize
Go to \kafkawize-communityedition-4.5.2\bin directory
If Windows : run start-kafkawize.bat batch file
If Linux/Unix/Mac : run start-kafkawize.sh shell script
This would start 2 Java processes. UI Api application and Cluster Management application.
Check the logs kw-uiapi.log and kw-clusterapi.log if applications are started or grep for the processes
Access the application
Access the portal at http://localhost:9097/kafkawize
Login with user username : gary and password: user
Other configured users can be found in the script in \kafkawize-communityedition-4.5.2\dbscripts\rdbms\insertdata.sql
To configure clusters or users, corresponding menus are available.