JAR quickstart

To connect the latest Kpow JAR to a Kafka cluster:

Get a Free trial license. See: Trials and licenses.
Download the latest Kpow JAR.
Create astart-kpow.sh that sets environment variables and starts the JAR

Note: Quoting may be required for some variables

Some variables may require quotes, and each line ends with a \ character.

BOOTSTRAP="kafka-1:9092,kafka-2:9092,kafka-3:9092" \
LICENSE_ID=1c99v4-f690-4a4f-b144-73de2369444a \
LICENSE_CODE=TRIAL_30D \
LICENSEE="My Corp" \
LICENSE_EXPIRY=2020-09-05 \
LICENSE_SIGNATURE=15CFFF969111DB6DCA142B6F1E0065F94A614251B80128D52C2CD45993A021AE10E90F57B90FF76CC1B992C16E54BCF1CBE7E5EE3124B3E585BE133774836A6EBB51B55E67EF60F4A435EBEC9F07A26CEABDCF6E3CF4137A33201E7662AF1F7986E57341E0EAEB884BBF320C348D62679F521259DAD1E03F6F79DB53D83CD41B \
ENVIRONMENT_NAME="Trade Book (Staging)" \
ALLOW_TOPIC_CREATE=true \
ALLOW_TOPIC_DELETE=true \
ALLOW_TOPIC_EDIT=true \
ALLOW_TOPIC_INSPECT=true \
ALLOW_TOPIC_PRODUCE=true \
java -jar -Xmx8G ./kpow-latest.jar

Run chmod +x start-kpow.sh then ./start-kpow.sh
Kpow is now running on http://localhost:3000

Java commands

In general we recommend starting Kpow with a Java command similar to our Dockerfile:

java -jar -Xmx8G ./kpow-latest.jar

However java -jar strips any classpath parameters you pass to the command which might be a problem in certain installation cases or when configuring custom Custom Serdes. See: Data inspect.

To pass extra classpath parameters to Kpow, or simply to start with the plain java command you can:

java -Xmx8G -cp ./kpow-latest.jar:another.jar factorhouse.kpow