Init Script for Apache Kafka as Ubuntu Service (Deprecated)

kafka

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:             kafka
# Required-Start:       $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named
# Required-Stop:        $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named
# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:         0 1 6
# Short-Description:    Kafka server
### END INIT INFO

DAEMON_PATH=/path/to/kafka/ ### CHANGE THIS TO YOUR OWN PATH ###
PATH=$PATH:$DAEMON_PATH/bin

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        # Start daemon.
        echo "Starting Zookeeper";
        nohup $DAEMON_PATH/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh -daemon $DAEMON_PATH/config/zookeeper.properties 2> /dev/null && \
        echo "Starting Kafka";
        nohup $DAEMON_PATH/bin/kafka-server-start.sh -daemon $DAEMON_PATH/config/server.properties 2> /dev/null
        ;;
  stop)
        # Stop daemons.
        echo "Shutting down Zookeeper";
        pid=$(ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -i 'org\.apache\.zookeeper\.server' | awk '{print $1}')
        if [ -n "$pid" ]
          then
          kill -9 "$pid"
        else
          echo "Zookeeper was not Running"
        fi
        echo "Shutting down Kafka";
        pid=$(ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -i 'kafka\.Kafka' | awk '{print $1}')
        if [ -n "$pid" ]
          then
          kill -9 "$pid"
        else
          echo "Kafka was not Running"
        fi
        ;;
  restart)
        $0 stop
        sleep 2
        $0 start
        ;;
  status)
        pid=$(ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -i 'org\.apache\.zookeeper\.server' | awk '{print $1}')
        if [ -n "$pid" ]
          then
          echo "Zookeeper is Running as PID: $pid"
        else
          echo "Zookeeper is not Running"
        fi
        pid=$(ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -i 'kafka\.Kafka' | awk '{print $1}')
        if [ -n "$pid" ]
          then
          echo "Kafka is Running as PID: $pid"
        else
          echo "Kafka is not Running"
        fi
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0

While this method still work under Ubuntu 16.04, it is kind of deprecated in latest Linux systems, and systemd is preferred.

Here is the solution using systemd on Ubuntu 16.04:
https://gist.github.com/myleshk/21e3edae82a73a70c72271e18bd5b108

P.S. This solution only runs Kafka as root user, and in the linked solution, user kafka is used.