Docker

Introduction

Docker is a popular container runtime. Docker images for Apache Kafka can be found on Docker Hub and are available from version 3.7.0.

Getting the kafka docker image

Docker image can be pulled from Docker Hub using the following command:-

$ docker pull apache/kafka:3.7.2

If you want to fetch the latest version of the docker image use following command:-

$ docker pull apache/kafka:latest

Start kafka with default configs

Run docker image on default port 9092:-

$ docker run -p 9092:9092 apache/kafka:3.7.2

Usage guide

Detailed instructions for using the docker image are mentioned here.