Document supported Kafka versions

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We currently don't document which version of Kafka we ship with CDAP, nor which version(s) we would support for an external Kafka server.

The current version of Kafka (as of 4.0.0-SNAPSHOT) is 0.8.2.2, and can be found in the pom.xml:

We mention the embedded version on http://docs.cask.co/cdap/current/en/admin-manual/cdap-components.html.

We mention using an external version on:

Each of the installation guides mentions Kafka, such as http://docs.cask.co/cdap/current/en/admin-manual/installation/packages.html?highlight=kafka.

The build script (common_conf.py) could be modified to extract the Kafka version as it does the CDAP version (in get_sdk_version()) and publish it as part of the rst_epilog, as the "embedded-kafka-version".

We need to test higher versions to see if they are compatible; currently, only 0.8.2.2 is known as.

Not certain where to add this version information, as this is not obvious. Perhaps on either of these:

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Created November 18, 2016 at 12:01 AM
Updated September 20, 2018 at 1:32 AM