🚀 Kafka + Kafka UI (Docker Compose)

This repository contains a simple Docker Compose setup for running Apache Kafka along with Kafka UI for management and monitoring.
It’s ideal for local development, testing, and experimenting with Kafka clusters.

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📦 Services

• Kafka (Confluent 7.8.0)

  • Port: 9092 (Client connections)
  • Port: 9093 (Controller connection)
  • Volume: mq-data → Persistent Kafka data
  • Hostname: kafka.cynegeirus.local

• Kafka UI (Provectus)

  • Port: 9091 (Web UI → http://localhost:9091)
  • Username / Password: admin / YOUR_PASSWORD
  • Hostname: kafka-ui.cynegeirus.local

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⚙️ Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/docker-kafka/kafka-docker.git
   cd docker-kafka

2. Update the YOUR_IP_ADDRESS in the docker-compose.yml file with your host machine’s IP address:

   KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://192.168.1.100:9092
   KAFKA_CLUSTERS_0_BOOTSTRAPSERVERS: 192.168.1.100:9092

3. Start the services:

   docker compose up -d

4. Access Kafka UI:

   http://localhost:9091
   

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🛠️ Example Usage

Create a topic

docker exec -it kafka kafka-topics --create \
  --topic test-topic \
  --partitions 1 \
  --replication-factor 1 \
  --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

List topics

docker exec -it kafka kafka-topics --list \
  --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

Produce messages

docker exec -it kafka kafka-console-producer \
  --topic test-topic \
  --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

Consume messages

docker exec -it kafka kafka-console-consumer \
  --topic test-topic \
  --from-beginning \
  --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

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📝 Notes

• Replace YOUR_IP_ADDRESS with your actual machine IP (e.g., 192.168.1.100).
• Kafka data is persisted in the mq-data Docker volume.
• Default credentials for Kafka UI are configurable via environment variables.

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the license file for details.

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🙌 Issues, Feature Requests or Support

Please use the Issue > New Issue button to submit issues, feature requests or support issues directly to me. You can also send an e-mail to akin.bicer@outlook.com.tr.