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• Kafkacat Amazon Workspace
  January 14, 2020 in Uncategorized

  Below are some notes on getting <a href="https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat#build">kafkacat</a> installed on an Amazon workspace with admin access.

  The commands listed on the GitHub page will not work without a little preparation. A Linux Amazon Workspace image is based on Amazon Linux. Attempts to use a package manager like yum go through a plugin, amzn_workspaces_filter_updates. This filter only has a handful of packages (30 at the time of this writing) that can be pulled. The first thing to do is add Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, EPEL, to the instance’s package repository. Following the instructions on the Fedora FAQ run: