deciphernow/kafka repository overview

⁠Kafka

This directory provides the scripts and configuration files for building Docker containers that run Apache ZooKeeper and Apache Kafka in the same container. While in theory, you should have one process per container, in practice it's often less messy to run two dependent processes in the same container.

⁠Building

In order to build an image simply run the following command from this directory:

./build.sh

This script will build a new Docker image with sensible defaults, but you may override them with the following environment variables:

Be sure to confirm that your ZooKeeper version is compatible with your Kafka version.

⁠Publishing

To build and publish the built image simply run the following command from this directory:

./publish.sh

This script accepts the same environment variables as the as the build script.

⁠Running

To run an image build using this repository run the following command:

docker run deciphernow/kafka:2.11-2.1.0

This will start Kafka on localhost:9092 and ZooKeeper on localhost:2181. Since this may not be desirable, you may override any of these by setting the following environment variables in your run command: