kafka-compose

docker-compose file with kafka.

It allows to run kafka on dev machine without installing it. It contains zookeeper, kafka, kafka-topics-creator.

kafka-topics-creator creates topics and exists.

Note, there is one kafka broker; each topic has replication factor 1 and each topic has one partition.

How to check topics created

After kafka-topics-creator finished, you can check the topics.

1. connect to the kafka broker container. docker exec -it kafka bash. On Windows machine, you may need winpty docker exec -it kafka bash.

2. Navigate to kafka directory. In this example, cd usr/bin.

3. Check kafka topics with kafka-topics --list --zookeeper zookeeper:32181 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44405663/list-all-kafka-topics