This repository provides a convenient way to start kafka in docker for development and testing purposes.

git clone https://github.com/Gr1f0n6x/docker-kafka-kit.git ./docker-kafka-kit
cd ./docker-kafka-kit
docker-compose up
# or
docker-compose up -d # (for running it in detached mode)

It will start the following containers:

• zookeeper: localhost:2181 (confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:5.0.0)
• kafka-broker: localhost:29092 (confluentinc/cp-enterprise-kafka:5.0.0)
• schema-registry: localhost:8081 (confluentinc/cp-schema-registry:5.0.0)
• kafka-connect: localhost:8083 (confluentinc/cp-kafka-connect:5.0.0)
• kafka-rest-proxy: localhost:8082 (confluentinc/cp-kafka-rest:5.0.0)
• kafka-topics-ui: localhost:8001 (landoop/kafka-topics-ui:0.9.4)
• schema-registry-ui: localhost:8000 (landoop/schema-registry-ui:0.9.5)

Using schema registry ui you can easily create new schema and update existing schemas

Assuming that you have already installed kafka binaries, you can run this command:

kafka-topics --create --topic test --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1

and, in result, you will see created topic in kafka topics ui web page: