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Quick Setup - Kafka Local Development environment
Setting up your Kafka Local Development environment couldn't be simpler. The docker-compose file I explore in this post should get you going straight away.
Docker-Compose
The docker-compose file contains 3 services: ZooKeeper, Kafka itself and Kafdrop.
services:
zookeeper:
image: confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:latest
environment:
ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT: 2181
ZOOKEEPER_TICK_TIME: 2000
kafka:
image: confluentinc/cp-kafka:latest
depends_on:
- zookeeper
ports:
- 9092:9092
- 29092:29092
environment:
KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: zookeeper:2181
KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://kafka:29092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:9092
KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
kafdrop:
image: obsidiandynamics/kafdrop:latest
depends_on:
- kafka
ports:
- 9000:9000
environment:
KAFKA_BROKERCONNECT: kafka:29092
Services
Zookeeper
Zookeeper is available because it is responsible for the coordination and management service of Kafka brokers.
In our dev local instance, a single broker is enough for us to get started.
For more details check: https://zookeeper.apache.org/
Kafdrop
Kafdrop is a lightweight web UI for viewing Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, and messages.
For more details check: https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop
If you need more tools in your
docker-compose
, Confluent Cloud provides wide varieties to attend to developers' needs, available at https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-all-in-one
Running
Run docker-compose up -d
to run the compose detached, and once it is up, go to the browser http://localhost:9000
You should see Kafdrop running:
After execution, run docker-compose down -v
to stop and remove all the containers, along with their associated networks, volumes, and images.