1) Install Java JDK version 11

  wget -O- https://apt.corretto.aws/corretto.key | sudo apt-key add - 
  sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://apt.corretto.aws stable main'
  sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y java-11-amazon-corretto-jdk

Upon completion, you should get a similar output when doing java -version:

openjdk version "11.0.18" 2023-01-17 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Corretto-11.0.18.10.1 (build 11.0.18+10-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Corretto-11.0.18.10.1 (build 11.0.18+10-LTS, mixed mode)

2) Install Apache Kafka

cd /opt/

wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/3.0.0/kafka_2.13-3.0.0.tgz

sudo tar xzf kafka_2.13-3.0.0.tgz

cd kafka_2.13-3.0.0/

sudo apt-get install vim -y

vim ~/.bashrc

PATH="$PATH:/opt/kafka_2.13-3.0.0/bin"

3) start kafka

The first step is to generate a new ID for your cluster

sudo /opt/kafka_2.13-3.0.0/bin/kafka-storage.sh random-uuid

This returns a UUID, for example 76BLQI7sT_ql1mBfKsOk9Q

Next, format your storage directory (replace by your UUID obtained above)

sudo /opt/kafka_2.13-3.0.0/bin/kafka-storage.sh format -t <uuid> -c  /opt/kafka_2.13-3.0.0/config/kraft/server.properties