More like getting started in a dev environment; I want to play with a technology on a laptop or my home compute machine sometimes before venturing into production or recommending it to clients.
Also, since you talked above about the "lack of documentation" to get up and running with a small Kafka deployment of only 1 broker and 1 ZK instance: this is covered in the Kafka quickstart, which is probably what most people will read when starting out with Kafka. See https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#quickstart.
What sort of thing are you after? Like a getting started for production without creating footguns style how too?