You can get image via Docker Hub.

https://hub.docker.com/r/kazukima/kafka-without-zookeeper/tags

docker run -p 9092:9092 --rm -it kazukima/kafka-without-zookeeper:latest

https://hub.docker.com/r/kazukima/kafka-without-zookeeper/tags

Dockerfile for runs kafka without zookeeper.

Many software build top of Apache Kafka. Creating sandbox Kafka cluster for try to those software is boring work.

This image aims for testing with Kafka easily. If you try to Kafka related software,

Thanks to KIP-500, now Kafka runs single process.

Following one-line start kafka on localmachine, broker advertising name is localhost.

docker run -p 9092:9092 --rm -it kazukima/kafka-without-zookeeper:latest

You can create topic by following command.

./kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server=localhost:9092 --create --topic new_name

~

Created topic new_name.

docker-compose example is follows.

---
version: '2'
services:
  kafka:
    image: kazukima/kafka-without-zookeeper:latest
    hostname: kafka
    container_name: kafka
    ports:
      - "9092:9092"
      - "9101:9101"
    environment:
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOSTNAME: kafka

You should set KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOSTNAME if you want to connect kafka from other host/container.

Default value is localhost and only

• KRaft (aka KIP-500) mode Early Access Release - kafka/README.md at 2.8 · apache/kafka
• Kafka Needs No Keeper - Removing ZooKeeper Dependency - //www.confluent.io/blog
• Apache Kafka 2.8.0 Features and Improvements (Including Early Access to KIP-500) - //www.confluent.io/blog