System:

rmoff@proxmox01:~$ uname -a
Linux proxmox01 4.4.6-1-pve #1 SMP Thu Apr 21 11:25:40 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

rmoff@proxmox01:~$ head -n1 /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"

rmoff@proxmox01:~$ python --version
Python 2.7.9

Following:

• https://www.confluent.io/blog/introduction-to-apache-kafka-for-python-programmers/
• https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python

Install librdkafka, which is a pre-req for the Python library:

wget -qO - https://packages.confluent.io/deb/4.0/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.confluent.io/deb/4.0 stable main"
sudo apt-get install librdkafka-dev python-dev

Setup virtualenv:

sudo apt-get install virtualenv
virtualenv kafka_push_notify
source ./kafka_push_notify/bin/activate.fish

Try to install confluent-kafka: