Refer : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-apache-kafka-on-ubuntu-20-04

Step 1: Create Kafka User and Download Binaries

1. Create a new user

   sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash kafka

2. Grant sudo privileges

   sudo visudo

   Add this line at the bottom:

   kafka ALL=(ALL) ALL

3. Switch to the kafka user

   su -l kafka

4. Create a Downloads directory and move into it

   mkdir -p ~/Downloads

   cd ~/Downloads

5. Download Kafka binaries

   wget https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/3.6.0/kafka_2.13-3.6.0.tgz -O kafka.tgz

6. Create Kafka directory and extract binaries

   mkdir ~/kafka

   tar -xvzf kafka.tgz -C ~/kafka --strip-components=1

Step 2: Configure Kafka

1. Open Kafka server configuration

   nano ~/kafka/config/server.properties

2. Enable topic deletion

   Set this property inside the file:

   delete.topic.enable=true

Step 3: Create Systemd Services for Kafka:

• Using systemctl gives better control with start, stop, and enable options
• create a script to run start, stop and put start logs in separate log files.

Step 4: Run a zookeeper along with kafka

• Run a zookeeper, (may create a service)
• Run a kafka instance and check status.