I have followed the following URL to install the confluent local on my centos 7 VM.
https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/quickstart/ce-quickstart.html
Moreover, This thread is more about accessing the Control Center. I have posted another question (Java client Timed out waiting for a node assignment) as well where I mentioned that I followed one of your posts to connect my Java Client to the brokers but thats not working. I will appreciate if you could look into that thread as well.