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Apache Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform. Long-term tracks maintained by Canonical.

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kafka | Ubuntu

Current kafka Docker Image from Canonical, based on Ubuntu. Receives security updates and rolls to newer kafka or Ubuntu release. This repository is free to use and exempted from per-user rate limits.

About kafka

Current Apache Kafka Docker Image from Canonical, based on Ubuntu. Receives security updates and tracks the newest combination of Apache Kafka and Ubuntu. This repository is free to use and exempted from per-user rate limits.

About Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics and integrations. Read more on the Apache Kafka website. This image requires the Apache Zookeeper image to run properly.

Please note that the images tagged up to 3.1 are Dockerfile-base images, whereas from version 3.6.1 onward the images are now rocks. As such the entrypoint is now Pebble. Read more on the Rockcraft docs.

Quickstart

To deploy a single-broker dockerized version of Kafka, you need to first deploy the ZooKeeper service and make sure that the ZooKeeper service is reachable by Kafka.

First, create a network

docker network create -d bridge kafka-network

Deploy the ZooKeeper service

docker run --detach  --name zookeeper --network kafka-network ubuntu/zookeeper:3.8-22.04_edge

Finally, deploy the Kafka service

docker run --detach --name kafka --network kafka-network -p 9092:9092 ubuntu/kafka:3.6-22.04_edge

Tags and Architectures

LTS Up to 5 years of free security maintenance on LTS channels.

ESM Up to 10 years of customer security maintenance from Canonical's restricted repositories.

Channel TagsSupported untilCurrentlyArchitectures
3.1-22.04_beta3.1-22.04_edge, edge, latest-kafka 3.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTSamd64, ppc64le, s390x, arm64
3.6-22.04_edge3.6-22.04_edge-kafka 3.6 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTSamd64
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Channel Tags shows the most stable channel for that track ordered stable, candidate, beta, edge. More risky channels are always implicitly available. So if beta is listed, you can also pull edge. If candidate is listed, you can pull beta and edge. When stable is listed, all four are available. Images are guaranteed to progress through the sequence edge, beta, candidate before stable.

Commercial use and Extended Security Maintenance channels

If your usage includes commercial redistribution, or requires ESM or unavailable channels/versions, please get in touch with the Canonical team (or using rocks@canonical.com).

Usage

Launch this image locally:

docker run -d --name kafka-container -e TZ=UTC -p 9092:9092 ubuntu/kafka:3.1-22.04_beta

Access your Apache Kafka server at http://localhost:9092.

Parameters

ParameterDescription
-e TZ=UTCTimezone.
-e ZOOKEEPER_HOST=<zookeeper>Hostname for the related Zookeeper instance.
-e ZOOKEEPER_PORT=2181Port for the related Zookeeper instance.
-p 9092:9092Expose Apache Kafka server on localhost:2181.
-v /path/to/config/file:/etc/kafka/server.propertiesLocal Kafka configuration file.
-v kafkaData:/var/lib/kafka"Persist data in a docker volume named kafkaData. " "Make sure that the mount point is consistent with the configuration property logs.dirs.

Testing/Debugging

To debug the container:

docker logs -f kafka-container

To get an interactive shell:

docker exec -it kafka-container /bin/bash
Debugging

To debug the container:

docker logs -f <kafka-container>

To get an interactive shell:

docker exec -it <kafka-container> /bin/bash

Bugs and feature requests

If you find a bug in our image or want to request a specific feature, please file a bug here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-docker-images/+filebug

Please title the bug "kafka: <issue summary>". Make sure to include the digest of the image you are using, from:

docker images --no-trunc --quiet ubuntu/kafka:<tag>

Deprecated channels & tags

These channels (tags) are not updated anymore. Please upgrade to newer channels, or reach out if you can't upgrade.

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Docker Pull Command

docker pull ubuntu/kafka