Running a Local Kafka Broker

To run a single instance of Kafka broker on your local machine. Please follow the belong steps.

This guide will assume Kafka version 2.5.1

1. Pull the repo

git clone ssh://git@github.com/JSchillinger/kafka-docker.git

2. Modify docker-compose.yml

Modify docker-compose.yml and change the value of KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME to your local IP address. For example if you local machine IP address is 10.11.0.100

KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME: 10.11.0.100

3. Boot Docker up with docker-compose

Run/Boot container up via docker-compose

docker-compose up

Once this is booted up you should have access to the following

• Kafka Broker - localhost:9092
• Kafdrop Monitoring - http://localhost:9000

4. Usage of the Kafka broker

In the application that needs to connect to Kafka, to redirect it to use the local instance, add the following as environment variable

-Dkafka.bootstrap.server=localhost:9092
-Dkafka.replication.factor=1
-Dkafka.isr.config.value=1