How to start Kafka using Docker?
It’s possible to use Kafka on various operating systems, but here we’ll use Docker on Ubuntu Linux. We need Docker Desktop installed in order to proceed. You can follow this tutorial to install it:
👉 tutorial .
Go to Docker Hub and in the search bar, look for “apache kafka”. This will allow us to download the image needed to create a container.
Hands on
After clicking on the Apache Kafka image, download it by clicking Pull, then go to the Run option.
Set the container name and port, then click Run.
The log should indicate that everything is running properly.
Now, in the Exec tab, we can run commands inside the /opt/kafka directory.
cd optcd kafkabin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic my-topic --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --partitions 3 --replication-factor 1This way, we can create a topic.
bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --bootstrap-server localhost:9092Use the following command to list topics.
Conclusion
This is a practical way to run Kafka locally without installing it directly on your operating system.
