Learn about Apache Kafka and its ecosystem in 20 minutes.

What is Apache Kafka?

Learn how Kafka works, get a strong understanding of the different components

Kafka Fundamentals

Understanding Kafka

Starting Kafka

Learn how to use Kafka Command Line Interface (CLI)

Kafka CLI Tutorials

How to interact with Kafka programmatically?

Kafka Programming Tutorials

Practice using Kafka

Kafka Advanced Concepts

Series of advanced tutorials on important Kafka administration subjects

Kafka Administration

Next Level Kafka

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$ git clone https://github.com/conduktor/kafka-stack-docker-compose.git
Cloning into 'kafka-stack-docker-compose'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 551, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (219/219), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (125/125), done.
remote: Total 551 (delta 145), reused 140 (delta 83), pack-reused 332
Receiving objects: 100% (551/551), 110.29 KiB | 15.76 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (375/375), done.

$ ls -l
total 60
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user  4719 Nov 16 11:37 full-stack.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user 11345 Nov 16 11:37 LICENSE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user  8100 Nov 16 11:37 README.md
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ec2-user ec2-user  2150 Nov 16 11:37 test.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user  4759 Nov 16 11:37 zk-multiple-kafka-multiple-schema-registry.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user  4209 Nov 16 11:37 zk-multiple-kafka-multiple.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user  2728 Nov 16 11:37 zk-multiple-kafka-single.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user  2946 Nov 16 11:37 zk-single-kafka-multiple.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user  1604 Nov 16 11:37 zk-single-kafka-single.yml


docker-compose -f zk-single-kafka-single.yml up -d

$ docker-compose -f zk-single-kafka-single.yml ps
 Name             Command            State                       Ports
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kafka1   /etc/confluent/docker/run   Up      0.0.0.0:9092->9092/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9999->9999/tcp
zoo1     /etc/confluent/docker/run   Up      0.0.0.0:2181->2181/tcp, 2888/tcp, 3888/tcp

[appuser@kafka1 ~]$ kafka-topics --version
6.2.1-ccs (Commit:fa4bec046a2df3a6)

$ docker-compose -f zk-single-kafka-single.yml stop
Stopping kafka1 ... done
Stopping zoo1   ... done  

$ docker-compose -f zk-single-kafka-single.yml down
Removing kafka1 ... done
Removing zoo1   ... done
Removing network kafka-stack-docker-compose_default

Start Kafka with Docker and run on all systems.

How to Start Kafka using Docker?

Running Kafka on Docker will work for all operating systems including Mac, Windows and Linux. In this Kafka quick start guide, you'll learn how.

Learn how to launch Kafka with Docker and operate across all systems including Mac, Linux and Windows. This quick start Kafka setup guide will show you how.