Running Kafka Locally on Windows Using Docker

In this post, we will discuss how you can run Kafka on your windows machine. If you are looking to create a local development environment which uses Kafka, the easiest way is to get the confluent platform docker image and run with docker compose.

Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container docker applications, in this case confluent platform is running kafka and zookeper containers together. By default docker-compose is installed when you install docker desktop on windows environment. To learn more about docker compose you can check more details here. Go ahead and download docker for windows from the following link https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop

And then create a file docker-compose.yml with the following content

version: '2'

services:
  zookeeper:
    image: confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:6.1.0
    hostname: zookeeper
    container_name: zookeeper
    ports:
      - "2181:2181"
    environment:
      ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT: 2181
      ZOOKEEPER_TICK_TIME: 2000

  broker:
    image: confluentinc/cp-kafka:6.1.0
    hostname: broker
    container_name: broker
    depends_on:
      - zookeeper
    ports:
      - "29092:29092"
    environment:
      KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
      KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: 'zookeeper:2181'
      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://broker:9092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:29092
      KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
      KAFKA_TOOLS_LOG4J_LOGLEVEL: ERROR

Then run the following command

docker-compose up -d

And your Kafka broker will be running on localhost on port 29092.

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