# Install yozefu with Homebrew

TUI for exploring data in a Kafka cluster. Version 0.0.31 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-31.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:yozefu
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install yozefu
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:yozefu
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.0.31
- **Source summary:** TUI for exploring data in a Kafka cluster
- **Homepage:** <https://maif.github.io/yozefu/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/MAIF/yozefu>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-31T19:38:52Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- yozf (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.0.31
## Project history and usage

Yozefu is a young Rust terminal UI for exploring Kafka cluster data, packaged because it gives terminal-first users a focused alternative to browser Kafka consoles.

### Project history

The public project is maintained by MAIF and presents itself as an interactive terminal user interface for exploring Kafka clusters. Its README positions it beside AKHQ, Redpanda Console, and JetBrains Kafka tooling, but with a terminal workflow and a command-line headless mode.

A March 2025 article by the author says the tool had been developed over the previous four months to make Kafka data search more productive from the terminal. The design grew around real-time topic consumption, SQL-inspired filtering, cross-topic search, and later WebAssembly user-defined filters through Extism.

### Adoption history

Public adoption evidence is still thin compared with older Kafka tools. Its appearance in Homebrew, crates.io, Arch packaging, and Nix-oriented install instructions shows the project moving from a personal/internal productivity tool toward package-manager discovery.

### How it is used

Users run `yozf` against a registered Kafka cluster to browse topics, inspect records, filter values, export records, or stream matching results in headless mode into other command-line tools such as jq. The README explicitly notes that it consumes records only; it is not a Kafka producer or cluster administration console.

### Why package nerds care

Yozefu is significant as a modern TUI entry in the Kafka tooling space: small, terminal-native, Rust-based, and built around exploratory consumption rather than full cluster management. It is the kind of package that matters to people who prefer k9s-like workflows over web dashboards.

### Timeline

- 2024-11: The author says work began roughly four months before the March 2025 “Why Yozefu?” article.
- 2025-03-13: “Why Yozefu?” explains the motivation for a terminal Kafka explorer.
- 2025: The README documents Homebrew, cargo, Arch, and Nix install paths plus prebuilt release binaries.

### Related projects

- Related projects include AKHQ, Redpanda Console, JetBrains Kafka plugin, kcat, Ratatui, Extism, Apache Kafka, and jq.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/MAIF/yozefu>
- <https://maif.github.io/yozefu/>
- <https://mcdostone.github.io/articles/why-yozefu/>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

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## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.config/io.maif.yozefu/config.json

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/yozefu.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/yozefu.yml)


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