Ansible role for installation and deployment of Apache Kafka 2.8.0
- Upgrade to Kafka 2.8.0
- Add additional role variables for Kafka configuration
- Use LOG_DIR environment variable for application log files
- Write application logs to /var/log/kafka and symlink to /opt/kafka/logs
- Restart the Kafka service on failure
- Optionally create "kafka" user and group, creates by default