In order to be able to talk to Apache Kafka we need to have it, and Zookeper, installed.

For the first stage of the project it's good enough to use some of the Docker images that are around, like discussed here:
https://github.com/ches/docker-kafka#usage-quick-start

The setup that's required, should be documented, at a minimal level, in a README file, or a script. we do not need a tutorial that describes all of that in depth