kafka-local-stack

ready to use (locally) docker compose stack with kafka: zookeeper, broker, schema registry and ui

how to use

• stand up local kafka cluster

  docker compose up -d
  

• create a topic (e.g. my-data-topic) and push there some data

  ./cli-tools/create-topic.sh my-data-topic
  ./cli-tools/pub-topic-message my-data-topic key:data
  
  

• use UI from Kafdrop to see what's in the cluster

  http://localhost:9001
  

known issues

• access to docker socket from non privileged environment

  sudo chown $(whoami):$(whoami) /var/run/docker.sock