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## 1 Prerequisites

This topic provides the prerequisites to be performed before the kafka configuration.

The following installation should be completed and running to enable the APIs to publish and consume message from Kafka.

- Zookeeper
- Kafka

Minimum requirements for installation are:

- Partition count: 2
- Replication factor: 2
- Kafka brokers: 2
- Zookeeper nodes: 2
- Servers: 2

These values can be increased based on the requirement and load. Restrict the access to the server*.properties file of Kafka servers.