I was unable to install this via PIP on my Mac given the latest Homebrew formula for librdkafka was only up to 0.9 and I saw errors during PIP install. To solve I edited the Homebrew formula for librdkafka to download the latest version. After that, the PIP install worked without errors.

• https://gist.github.com/mikesparr/164c4dec9e37ad78d3b0ffcbad12909c

You can type:

• brew edit librdkafka and then paste in content above
• you might have to brew unlink librdkafka before installing new version
• afterwords in your setup.py file add dependency confluent-kafka and then run
  • python setup.py install (or with sudo)

Good luck!