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Apache Kafka - An open-source distributed event streaming platform.
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# What is Apache Kafka®?

Apache Kafka is an open-source event streaming platform used to collect, process, store, and integrate data at scale in real time. It powers numerous use cases including stream processing, data integration, and pub/sub messaging.

Kafka was originally developed at LinkedIn, was open sourced in 2011, and became an Apache Software Foundation project in 2012. It is used by thousands of organizations globally to power mission-critical real-time applications, from stock exchanges, to e-commerce applications, to IoT monitoring & analytics, to name a few.

%%LOGO%%

## Quick start

Start a Kafka broker:

```console
docker run -d --name broker kafka:latest
```

Open a shell in the broker container:

```console
docker exec --workdir /opt/kafka/bin/ -it broker sh
```

A *topic* is a logical grouping of events in Kafka. From inside the container, create a topic called `test-topic`:

```console
./kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --create --topic test-topic
```

Write two string events into the `test-topic` topic using the console producer that ships with Kafka:

```console
./kafka-console-producer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test-topic
```

This command will wait for input at a `>` prompt. Enter `hello`, press `Enter`, then `world`, and press `Enter` again. Enter `Ctrl+C` to exit the console producer.

Now read the events in the `test-topic` topic from the beginning of the log:

```console
./kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic test-topic --from-beginning
```

You will see the two strings that you previously produced:

hello
world

The consumer will continue to run until you exit out of it by entering `Ctrl+C`.

When you are finished, stop and remove the container by running the following command on your host machine:

```console
docker rm -f broker
```

## Overriding the default broker configuration

Apache Kafka supports a broad set of broker configurations that you may override via environment variables. The environment variables must begin with `KAFKA_`, and any dots in broker configurations should be specified as underscores in the corresponding environment variable. For example, to set the default number of partitions in topics, [`num.partitions`](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#brokerconfigs_num.partitions), set the environment variable `KAFKA_NUM_PARTITIONS`. See the [Kafka Docker Image Usage Guide](https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/docker/examples/README.md) for more information on overriding broker configuration in Docker.

It's important to note that if you are overriding *any* configuration, then *none* of the default configurations will be used. For example, to run Kafka in KRaft [combined mode](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#kraft_role) (meaning that the broker handling client requests and the controller handling cluster coordination both run in the same container) and set the default number of topic partitions to 3 instead of the default 1, we would specify `KAFKA_NUM_PARTITIONS` in addition to other required configurations:

```console
docker run -d \
--name broker \
-e KAFKA_NODE_ID=1 \
-e KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES=broker,controller \
-e KAFKA_LISTENERS=PLAINTEXT://:9092,CONTROLLER://:9093 \
-e KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS=PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092 \
-e KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES=CONTROLLER \
-e KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP=CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT \
-e KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS=1@localhost:9093 \
-e KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR=1 \
-e KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR=1 \
-e KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR=1 \
-e KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS=0 \
-e KAFKA_NUM_PARTITIONS=3 \
kafka:latest
```

Specifying this many environment variables on the command line gets cumbersome. It's simpler to instead use [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) to specify and manage Kafka in Docker. Depending on how you installed Docker, you may already have Docker Compose. You can verify that it's available by checking if this command succeeds, and refer to the Docker Compose installation documentation [here](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) if it doesn't:

```console
docker compose version
```

To run Kafka with Docker Compose and override the default number of topic partitions to be 3, first copy the following into a file named `docker-compose.yml`:

```yaml
services:
broker:
image: kafka:latest
container_name: broker
environment:
KAFKA_NODE_ID: 1
KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: broker,controller
KAFKA_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092,CONTROLLER://localhost:9093
KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@localhost:9093
KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR: 1
KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
KAFKA_NUM_PARTITIONS: 3
```

Now, from the directory containing this file, bring Kafka up in detached mode so that the containers run in the background:

```console
docker compose up -d
```

The above [quick start](#quick-start) steps will work if you'd like to test topic creation and producing / consuming messages.

When you are finished, stop and remove the container by running the following command on your host machine from the directory containing the `docker-compose.yml` file:

```console
docker compose down
```

## External clients

The examples up to this point run Kafka client commands from within Docker. In order to run clients from outside Docker, two additional steps are needed when running one container in combined mode (it gets a little more complicated in the next section on multiple brokers).

First, map the port that Kafka listens on to the same port on your host machine, either by passing `-p 9092:9092` to the `docker run` command:

```console
docker run -d -p 9092:9092 --name broker kafka:latest
```

Or, if using Docker Compose, add the port mapping to the `broker` container spec:

```yaml
ports:
- 9092:9092
```

Second, download and unzip the [latest Kafka release](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#quickstart_download). The console producer and consumer CLI tools are included in the unzipped distribution's `bin` directory. The above [quick start](#quick-start) steps will work from your host machine; it's just that `localhost` refers to your host machine as opposed to the within-container `localhost`.

## Multiple nodes

In this section, you will explore a more realistic Kafka deployment consisting of three brokers and three controllers running in their own containers (i.e., KRaft [isolated mode](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#kraft_role)). We'll also configure it such that we can connect to Kafka from within Docker or from the host machine. Bear in mind that doing this exercise in Docker is convenient to learn about multi-broker configurations and the Kafka protocol, but this Docker Compose example isn't appropriate for a production deployment.

Compared to a single-node Kafka deployment, there is a bit more to do on the configuration front:

1. `KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES` is either `broker` or `controller` depending on the container's role, not the KRaft combined mode value `broker,controller`
2. `KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS` is a comma-separated list of the three controllers
3. We accept the default values for `KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR` (3), `KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR` (3), and `KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR` (2) now that there are enough brokers to support the default settings, so we don't specify these configurations (a partition's replicas must reside on different brokers for fault tolerance)
4. Brokers have two listeners: one for communicating within the Docker network and one for connecting from the host machine. Because Kafka clients connect directly to brokers after initially connecting (bootstrapping), one listener uses the container name because it is a resolvable name for all containers on the Docker network. This listener is also used for inter-broker communication. The second listener uses `localhost` on a unique port that gets mapped on the host (29092 for `broker-1`, 39092 for `broker-2`, and 49092 for `broker-3`). With one node, a single listener on `localhost` works because the `localhost` name is conveniently correct from within the container and from the host machine, but this doesn't apply in a multi-node setup.

To deploy this six-node setup on your machine, copy the following into a file named `docker-compose.yml`:

```yaml
services:
controller-1:
image: kafka:latest
container_name: controller-1
environment:
KAFKA_NODE_ID: 1
KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: controller
KAFKA_LISTENERS: CONTROLLER://:9093
KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@controller-1:9093,2@controller-2:9093,3@controller-3:9093
KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0

controller-2:
image: kafka:latest
container_name: controller-2
environment:
KAFKA_NODE_ID: 2
KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: controller
KAFKA_LISTENERS: CONTROLLER://:9093
KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@controller-1:9093,2@controller-2:9093,3@controller-3:9093
KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0

controller-3:
image: kafka:latest
container_name: controller-3
environment:
KAFKA_NODE_ID: 3
KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: controller
KAFKA_LISTENERS: CONTROLLER://:9093
KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@controller-1:9093,2@controller-2:9093,3@controller-3:9093
KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0

broker-1:
image: kafka:latest
container_name: broker-1
ports:
- 29092:9092
environment:
KAFKA_NODE_ID: 4
KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: broker
KAFKA_LISTENERS: 'PLAINTEXT://:19092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://:9092'
KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: 'PLAINTEXT://broker-1:19092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:29092'
KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@controller-1:9093,2@controller-2:9093,3@controller-3:9093
KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
depends_on:
- controller-1
- controller-2
- controller-3

broker-2:
image: kafka:latest
container_name: broker-2
ports:
- 39092:9092
environment:
KAFKA_NODE_ID: 5
KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: broker
KAFKA_LISTENERS: 'PLAINTEXT://:19092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://:9092'
KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: 'PLAINTEXT://broker-2:19092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:39092'
KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@controller-1:9093,2@controller-2:9093,3@controller-3:9093
KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
depends_on:
- controller-1
- controller-2
- controller-3

broker-3:
image: kafka:latest
container_name: broker-3
ports:
- 49092:9092
environment:
KAFKA_NODE_ID: 6
KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: broker
KAFKA_LISTENERS: 'PLAINTEXT://:19092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://:9092'
KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: 'PLAINTEXT://broker-3:19092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:49092'
KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT
KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@controller-1:9093,2@controller-2:9093,3@controller-3:9093
KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
depends_on:
- controller-1
- controller-2
- controller-3
```

Start the containers from the directory containing the `docker-compose.yml` file:

```console
docker compose up -d
```

Now, the following commands will work to produce and consume from within the Docker network. First, open a shell on any of the nodes:

```console
docker exec --workdir /opt/kafka/bin/ -it broker-1 sh
```

Now run these commands in the container shell to create a topic, produce to it, and consume from it:

```console
./kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server broker-1:19092,broker-2:19092,broker-3:19092 --create --topic test-topic
```

```console
./kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server broker-1:19092,broker-2:19092,broker-3:19092 --topic test-topic --from-beginning
```

```console
./kafka-console-producer.sh --bootstrap-server broker-1:19092,broker-2:19092,broker-3:19092 --topic test-topic
```

Alternatively, you can run the client programs from your host machine by navigating to your Kafka distribution's `bin` directory and running:

```console
./kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:29092,localhost:39092,localhost:49092 --create --topic test-topic2
```

```console
./kafka-console-producer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:29092,localhost:39092,localhost:49092 --topic test-topic2
```

```console
./kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:29092,localhost:39092,localhost:49092 --topic test-topic2 --from-beginning
```

When you are finished, stop and remove the Kafka deployment by running the following command on your host machine from the directory containing the `docker-compose.yml` file:

```console
docker compose down
```

## Additional resources

- [Apache Kafka documentation](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/)
- [Introduction to Kafka Streams](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/), Apache Kafka's library for developing stream processing applications on the JVM
- [Introduction to Kafka Connect](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect), Apache Kafka's framework for configuration-based connectors to move data from external systems into Kafka (source connectors) or from Kafka into external systems (sink connectors)
- [Books and papers](https://kafka.apache.org/books-and-papers) on Kafka and streaming in general
- [Slides and recordings of conference talks on streaming](https://www.kafka-summit.org/past-events)
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"hub": {
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}
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