Confluent Kafka’s Command Line Interface (CLI)

Confluent team has introduced the Command Line Interface (CLI) to automate the process of starting/stopping and monitoring the services we need when using the confluent platform.

Confluent team built CLI as part of confluent platform 3.3.

It helps us speed up development by making it easy to get up and running.

It’s free and open source and available as part of confluent platform.

Keep in mind this CLI works on localhost only and it’s intended for development only.

Running a quick $ confluent start in your terminal is all it takes to get started.