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 id: getting-started-standalone
 title: Set up a standalone Pulsar locally
 sidebar_label: "Run Pulsar locally"
 original_id: getting-started-standalone
 ---

 For local development and testing, you can run Pulsar in standalone mode on your machine. The standalone mode includes a Pulsar broker, the necessary ZooKeeper and BookKeeper components running inside of a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) process.

 > #### Pulsar in production?
 > If you're looking to run a full production Pulsar installation, see the [Deploying a Pulsar instance](deploy-bare-metal.md) guide.

 ## Install Pulsar standalone

 ### System requirements

 Currently, Pulsar is available for 64-bit **macOS**, **Linux**, and **Windows**. To use Pulsar, you need to install 64-bit JRE/JDK 8 or later versions.

 ### Install Pulsar using binary release

 To get started with Pulsar, download a binary tarball release in one of the following ways:

 * download from the Apache mirror (<a href="@pulsar:binary_release_url@" download>Pulsar @pulsar:version@ binary release</a>)

 * download from the Pulsar [downloads page](@pulsar:download_page_url@)

 * download from the Pulsar [releases page](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/releases/latest)

 * use [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget):

   ```shell

   $ wget @pulsar:binary_release_url@

   ```

 After you download the tarball, untar it and use the `cd` command to navigate to the resulting directory:

 ```bash

 $ tar xvfz apache-pulsar-@pulsar:version@-bin.tar.gz
 $ cd apache-pulsar-@pulsar:version@

 ```

 #### What your package contains

 The Pulsar binary package initially contains the following directories:

 Directory | Contains
 :---------|:--------
 `bin` | Pulsar's command-line tools, such as [`pulsar`](reference-cli-tools.md#pulsar) and [`pulsar-admin`](reference-pulsar-admin.md).
 `conf` | Configuration files for Pulsar, including [broker configuration](reference-configuration.md#broker), [ZooKeeper configuration](reference-configuration.md#zookeeper), and more.
 `examples` | A Java JAR file containing [Pulsar Functions](functions-overview.md) example.
 `lib` | The [JAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_(file_format)) files used by Pulsar.
 `licenses` | License files, in the`.txt` form, for various components of the Pulsar [codebase](https://github.com/apache/pulsar).

 These directories are created once you begin running Pulsar.

 Directory | Contains
 :---------|:--------
 `data` | The data storage directory used by ZooKeeper and BookKeeper.
 `instances` | Artifacts created for [Pulsar Functions](functions-overview.md).
 `logs` | Logs created by the installation.

 #### Install other optional components

 :::tip

 If you want to use builtin connectors and tiered storage offloaders, you can install them according to the following instructions：
 * [Install builtin connectors (optional)](#install-builtin-connectors-optional)
 * [Install tiered storage offloaders (optional)](#install-tiered-storage-offloaders-optional)
 Otherwise, skip this step and perform the next step [Start Pulsar standalone](#start-pulsar-standalone). Pulsar can be successfully installed without installing bulitin connectors and tiered storage offloaders.

 :::

 ##### Install builtin connectors (optional)

 Since `2.1.0-incubating` release, Pulsar releases a separate binary distribution, containing all the `builtin` connectors.
 To enable those `builtin` connectors, you can download the connectors tarball release in one of the following ways:

 * download from the Apache mirror <a href="@pulsar:connector_release_url@" download>Pulsar IO Connectors @pulsar:version@ release</a>

 * download from the Pulsar [downloads page](@pulsar:download_page_url@)

 * download from the Pulsar [releases page](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/releases/latest)

 * use [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget):

   ```shell

   $ wget @pulsar:connector_release_url@/{connector}-@pulsar:version@.nar

   ```

 After you download the nar file, copy the file to the `connectors` directory in the pulsar directory.
 For example, if you download the `pulsar-io-aerospike-@pulsar:version@.nar` connector file, enter the following commands:

 ```bash

 $ mkdir connectors
 $ mv pulsar-io-aerospike-@pulsar:version@.nar connectors

 $ ls connectors
 pulsar-io-aerospike-@pulsar:version@.nar
 ...

 ```

 :::note

 * If you are running Pulsar in a bare metal cluster, make sure `connectors` tarball is unzipped in every pulsar directory of the broker
 (or in every pulsar directory of function-worker if you are running a separate worker cluster for Pulsar Functions).
 * If you are [running Pulsar in Docker](getting-started-docker.md) or deploying Pulsar using a docker image (e.g. [K8S](deploy-kubernetes.md) or [DC/OS](https://dcos.io/)),
 you can use the `apachepulsar/pulsar-all` image instead of the `apachepulsar/pulsar` image. `apachepulsar/pulsar-all` image has already bundled [all builtin connectors](io-overview.md#working-with-connectors).

 :::

 ##### Install tiered storage offloaders (optional)

 :::tip

 Since `2.2.0` release, Pulsar releases a separate binary distribution, containing the tiered storage offloaders.
 To enable tiered storage feature, follow the instructions below; otherwise skip this section.

 :::

 To get started with [tiered storage offloaders](concepts-tiered-storage.md), you need to download the offloaders tarball release on every broker node in one of the following ways:

 * download from the Apache mirror <a href="@pulsar:offloader_release_url@" download>Pulsar Tiered Storage Offloaders @pulsar:version@ release</a>

 * download from the Pulsar [downloads page](@pulsar:download_page_url@)

 * download from the Pulsar [releases page](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/releases/latest)

 * use [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget):

   ```shell

   $ wget @pulsar:offloader_release_url@

   ```

 After you download the tarball, untar the offloaders package and copy the offloaders as `offloaders`
 in the pulsar directory:

 ```bash

 $ tar xvfz apache-pulsar-offloaders-@pulsar:version@-bin.tar.gz

 // you will find a directory named `apache-pulsar-offloaders-@pulsar:version@` in the pulsar directory
 // then copy the offloaders

 $ mv apache-pulsar-offloaders-@pulsar:version@/offloaders offloaders

 $ ls offloaders
 tiered-storage-jcloud-@pulsar:version@.nar

 ```

 For more information on how to configure tiered storage, see [Tiered storage cookbook](cookbooks-tiered-storage.md).

 :::note

 * If you are running Pulsar in a bare metal cluster, make sure that `offloaders` tarball is unzipped in every broker's pulsar directory.
 * If you are [running Pulsar in Docker](getting-started-docker.md) or deploying Pulsar using a docker image (e.g. [K8S](deploy-kubernetes.md) or [DC/OS](https://dcos.io/)),
 you can use the `apachepulsar/pulsar-all` image instead of the `apachepulsar/pulsar` image. `apachepulsar/pulsar-all` image has already bundled tiered storage offloaders.

 :::

 ## Start Pulsar standalone

 Once you have an up-to-date local copy of the release, you can start a local cluster using the [`pulsar`](reference-cli-tools.md#pulsar) command, which is stored in the `bin` directory, and specifying that you want to start Pulsar in standalone mode.

 ```bash

 $ bin/pulsar standalone

 ```

 If you have started Pulsar successfully, you will see `INFO`-level log messages like this:

 ```bash

 2017-06-01 14:46:29,192 - INFO  - [main:WebSocketService@95] - Configuration Store cache started
 2017-06-01 14:46:29,192 - INFO  - [main:AuthenticationService@61] - Authentication is disabled
 2017-06-01 14:46:29,192 - INFO  - [main:WebSocketService@108] - Pulsar WebSocket Service started

 ```

 :::tip

 * The service is running on your terminal, which is under your direct control. If you need to run other commands, open a new terminal window.

 :::

 You can also run the service as a background process using the `pulsar-daemon start standalone` command. For more information, see [pulsar-daemon](https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/reference-cli-tools/#pulsar-daemon).
 >
 > * When you start a local standalone cluster, a `public/default` [namespace](concepts-messaging.md#namespaces) is created automatically. The namespace is used for development purposes. All Pulsar topics are managed within namespaces. For more information, see [Topics](concepts-messaging.md#topics).

 ## Use Pulsar standalone

 Pulsar provides a CLI tool called [`pulsar-client`](reference-cli-tools.md#pulsar-client). The pulsar-client tool enables you to consume and produce messages to a Pulsar topic in a running cluster.

 ### Consume a message

 The following command consumes a message with the subscription name `first-subscription` to the `my-topic` topic:

 ```bash

 $ bin/pulsar-client consume my-topic -s "first-subscription"

 ```

 If the message has been successfully consumed, you will see a confirmation like the following in the `pulsar-client` logs:

 ```

 09:56:55.566 [pulsar-client-io-1-1] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.MultiTopicsConsumerImpl - [TopicsConsumerFakeTopicNamee2df9] [first-subscription] Success subscribe new topic my-topic in topics consumer, partitions: 4, allTopicPartitionsNumber: 4

 ```

 :::tip

 As you have noticed that we do not explicitly create the `my-topic` topic, from which we consume the message. When you consume a message from a topic that does not yet exist, Pulsar creates that topic for you automatically. Producing a message to a topic that does not exist will automatically create that topic for you as well.

 :::

 ### Produce a message

 The following command produces a message saying `hello-pulsar` to the `my-topic` topic:

 ```bash

 $ bin/pulsar-client produce my-topic --messages "hello-pulsar"

 ```

 If the message has been successfully published to the topic, you will see a confirmation like the following in the `pulsar-client` logs:

 ```

 13:09:39.356 [main] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.client.cli.PulsarClientTool - 1 messages successfully produced

 ```

 ## Stop Pulsar standalone

 Press `Ctrl+C` to stop a local standalone Pulsar.

 :::tip

 If the service runs as a background process using the `pulsar-daemon start standalone` command, then use the `pulsar-daemon stop standalone`  command to stop the service.
 For more information, see [pulsar-daemon](https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/reference-cli-tools/#pulsar-daemon).

 :::
	---
	id: getting-started-standalone
	title: Set up a standalone Pulsar locally
	sidebar_label: "Run Pulsar locally"
	original_id: getting-started-standalone
	---

	For local development and testing, you can run Pulsar in standalone mode on your machine. The standalone mode includes a Pulsar broker, the necessary ZooKeeper and BookKeeper components running inside of a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) process.

	> #### Pulsar in production?
	> If you're looking to run a full production Pulsar installation, see the [Deploying a Pulsar instance](deploy-bare-metal.md) guide.

	## Install Pulsar standalone

	### System requirements

	Currently, Pulsar is available for 64-bit macOS, Linux, and Windows. To use Pulsar, you need to install 64-bit JRE/JDK 8 or later versions.

	### Install Pulsar using binary release

	To get started with Pulsar, download a binary tarball release in one of the following ways:

	* download from the Apache mirror (<a href="@pulsar:binary_release_url@" download>Pulsar @pulsar:version@ binary release</a>)

	* download from the Pulsar [downloads page](@pulsar:download_page_url@)

	* download from the Pulsar [releases page](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/releases/latest)

	* use [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget):

	```shell

	$ wget @pulsar:binary_release_url@

	```

	After you download the tarball, untar it and use the `cd` command to navigate to the resulting directory:

	```bash

	$ tar xvfz apache-pulsar-@pulsar:version@-bin.tar.gz
	$ cd apache-pulsar-@pulsar:version@

	```

	#### What your package contains

	The Pulsar binary package initially contains the following directories:

	Directory \| Contains
	:---------\|:--------
	`bin` \| Pulsar's command-line tools, such as [`pulsar`](reference-cli-tools.md#pulsar) and [`pulsar-admin`](reference-pulsar-admin.md).
	`conf` \| Configuration files for Pulsar, including [broker configuration](reference-configuration.md#broker), [ZooKeeper configuration](reference-configuration.md#zookeeper), and more.
	`examples` \| A Java JAR file containing [Pulsar Functions](functions-overview.md) example.
	`lib` \| The [JAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_(file_format)) files used by Pulsar.
	`licenses` \| License files, in the`.txt` form, for various components of the Pulsar [codebase](https://github.com/apache/pulsar).

	These directories are created once you begin running Pulsar.

	Directory \| Contains
	:---------\|:--------
	`data` \| The data storage directory used by ZooKeeper and BookKeeper.
	`instances` \| Artifacts created for [Pulsar Functions](functions-overview.md).
	`logs` \| Logs created by the installation.

	#### Install other optional components

	:::tip

	If you want to use builtin connectors and tiered storage offloaders, you can install them according to the following instructions：
	* [Install builtin connectors (optional)](#install-builtin-connectors-optional)
	* [Install tiered storage offloaders (optional)](#install-tiered-storage-offloaders-optional)
	Otherwise, skip this step and perform the next step [Start Pulsar standalone](#start-pulsar-standalone). Pulsar can be successfully installed without installing bulitin connectors and tiered storage offloaders.

	:::

	##### Install builtin connectors (optional)

	Since `2.1.0-incubating` release, Pulsar releases a separate binary distribution, containing all the `builtin` connectors.
	To enable those `builtin` connectors, you can download the connectors tarball release in one of the following ways:

	* download from the Apache mirror <a href="@pulsar:connector_release_url@" download>Pulsar IO Connectors @pulsar:version@ release</a>

	* download from the Pulsar [downloads page](@pulsar:download_page_url@)

	* download from the Pulsar [releases page](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/releases/latest)

	* use [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget):

	```shell

	$ wget @pulsar:connector_release_url@/{connector}-@pulsar:version@.nar

	```

	After you download the nar file, copy the file to the `connectors` directory in the pulsar directory.
	For example, if you download the `pulsar-io-aerospike-@pulsar:version@.nar` connector file, enter the following commands:

	```bash

	$ mkdir connectors
	$ mv pulsar-io-aerospike-@pulsar:version@.nar connectors

	$ ls connectors
	pulsar-io-aerospike-@pulsar:version@.nar
	...

	```

	:::note

	* If you are running Pulsar in a bare metal cluster, make sure `connectors` tarball is unzipped in every pulsar directory of the broker
	(or in every pulsar directory of function-worker if you are running a separate worker cluster for Pulsar Functions).
	* If you are [running Pulsar in Docker](getting-started-docker.md) or deploying Pulsar using a docker image (e.g. [K8S](deploy-kubernetes.md) or [DC/OS](https://dcos.io/)),
	you can use the `apachepulsar/pulsar-all` image instead of the `apachepulsar/pulsar` image. `apachepulsar/pulsar-all` image has already bundled [all builtin connectors](io-overview.md#working-with-connectors).

	:::

	##### Install tiered storage offloaders (optional)

	:::tip

	Since `2.2.0` release, Pulsar releases a separate binary distribution, containing the tiered storage offloaders.
	To enable tiered storage feature, follow the instructions below; otherwise skip this section.

	:::

	To get started with [tiered storage offloaders](concepts-tiered-storage.md), you need to download the offloaders tarball release on every broker node in one of the following ways:

	* download from the Apache mirror <a href="@pulsar:offloader_release_url@" download>Pulsar Tiered Storage Offloaders @pulsar:version@ release</a>

	* download from the Pulsar [downloads page](@pulsar:download_page_url@)

	* download from the Pulsar [releases page](https://github.com/apache/pulsar/releases/latest)

	* use [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget):

	```shell

	$ wget @pulsar:offloader_release_url@

	```

	After you download the tarball, untar the offloaders package and copy the offloaders as `offloaders`
	in the pulsar directory:

	```bash

	$ tar xvfz apache-pulsar-offloaders-@pulsar:version@-bin.tar.gz

	// you will find a directory named `apache-pulsar-offloaders-@pulsar:version@` in the pulsar directory
	// then copy the offloaders

	$ mv apache-pulsar-offloaders-@pulsar:version@/offloaders offloaders

	$ ls offloaders
	tiered-storage-jcloud-@pulsar:version@.nar

	```

	For more information on how to configure tiered storage, see [Tiered storage cookbook](cookbooks-tiered-storage.md).

	:::note

	* If you are running Pulsar in a bare metal cluster, make sure that `offloaders` tarball is unzipped in every broker's pulsar directory.
	* If you are [running Pulsar in Docker](getting-started-docker.md) or deploying Pulsar using a docker image (e.g. [K8S](deploy-kubernetes.md) or [DC/OS](https://dcos.io/)),
	you can use the `apachepulsar/pulsar-all` image instead of the `apachepulsar/pulsar` image. `apachepulsar/pulsar-all` image has already bundled tiered storage offloaders.

	:::

	## Start Pulsar standalone

	Once you have an up-to-date local copy of the release, you can start a local cluster using the [`pulsar`](reference-cli-tools.md#pulsar) command, which is stored in the `bin` directory, and specifying that you want to start Pulsar in standalone mode.

	```bash

	$ bin/pulsar standalone

	```

	If you have started Pulsar successfully, you will see `INFO`-level log messages like this:

	```bash

	2017-06-01 14:46:29,192 - INFO - [main:WebSocketService@95] - Configuration Store cache started
	2017-06-01 14:46:29,192 - INFO - [main:AuthenticationService@61] - Authentication is disabled
	2017-06-01 14:46:29,192 - INFO - [main:WebSocketService@108] - Pulsar WebSocket Service started

	```

	:::tip

	* The service is running on your terminal, which is under your direct control. If you need to run other commands, open a new terminal window.

	:::

	You can also run the service as a background process using the `pulsar-daemon start standalone` command. For more information, see [pulsar-daemon](https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/reference-cli-tools/#pulsar-daemon).
	>
	> * When you start a local standalone cluster, a `public/default` [namespace](concepts-messaging.md#namespaces) is created automatically. The namespace is used for development purposes. All Pulsar topics are managed within namespaces. For more information, see [Topics](concepts-messaging.md#topics).

	## Use Pulsar standalone

	Pulsar provides a CLI tool called [`pulsar-client`](reference-cli-tools.md#pulsar-client). The pulsar-client tool enables you to consume and produce messages to a Pulsar topic in a running cluster.

	### Consume a message

	The following command consumes a message with the subscription name `first-subscription` to the `my-topic` topic:

	```bash

	$ bin/pulsar-client consume my-topic -s "first-subscription"

	```

	If the message has been successfully consumed, you will see a confirmation like the following in the `pulsar-client` logs:

	```

	09:56:55.566 [pulsar-client-io-1-1] INFO org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.MultiTopicsConsumerImpl - [TopicsConsumerFakeTopicNamee2df9] [first-subscription] Success subscribe new topic my-topic in topics consumer, partitions: 4, allTopicPartitionsNumber: 4

	```

	:::tip

	As you have noticed that we do not explicitly create the `my-topic` topic, from which we consume the message. When you consume a message from a topic that does not yet exist, Pulsar creates that topic for you automatically. Producing a message to a topic that does not exist will automatically create that topic for you as well.

	:::

	### Produce a message

	The following command produces a message saying `hello-pulsar` to the `my-topic` topic:

	```bash

	$ bin/pulsar-client produce my-topic --messages "hello-pulsar"

	```

	If the message has been successfully published to the topic, you will see a confirmation like the following in the `pulsar-client` logs:

	```

	13:09:39.356 [main] INFO org.apache.pulsar.client.cli.PulsarClientTool - 1 messages successfully produced

	```

	## Stop Pulsar standalone

	Press `Ctrl+C` to stop a local standalone Pulsar.

	:::tip

	If the service runs as a background process using the `pulsar-daemon start standalone` command, then use the `pulsar-daemon stop standalone` command to stop the service.
	For more information, see [pulsar-daemon](https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/reference-cli-tools/#pulsar-daemon).

	:::