Is there a way to setup zilla as a standalone deployment on an aws ec2 instance?

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If Zilla is restricted to one environment, Is there a possibility that zilla can access the Kafka cluster in a different environment?

[vordimous]

You can install zilla manually by using the Zilla package manager zpm:

#!/bin/bash
set -ex

ZILLA_VERSION=0.9.88

wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aklivity/zilla/${ZILLA_VERSION}/cloud/docker-image/src/main/docker/zpm.json.template"

mkdir -p .zpm/wrapper

wget "https://maven.packages.aklivity.io/io/aklivity/zilla/manager/${ZILLA_VERSION}/manager-${ZILLA_VERSION}.jar" -O .zpm/wrapper/manager-${ZILLA_VERSION}.jar

cat zpm.json.template | sed "s/\${VERSION}/${ZILLA_VERSION}/g" > zpm.json

java -jar .zpm/wrapper/manager-${ZILLA_VERSION}.jar wrap

./zpmw install --debug

./zpmw clean --keep-image

rm zpm.json.template
rm zpm.json
rm zpm-lock.json
rm zpmw

That script will create the zilla executable which you can run the Zilla CLI commands with:

./zilla start -c ./path/to/zilla.yaml