kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that lets one endpoint in a workload produce messages, while other endpoints consume them. One or more consumers may subscribe to messages under a topic that a producer publishes. This architecture facilitates communication between loosely coupled applications in an enterprise.

See kafka.apache.org for more information

This image is built by IBM to run on the IBM Z architecture and is not affiliated with any other community that provides a version of this image.

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Versions

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3.9.2	docker pull icr.io/ibmz/kafka@sha256:a7ed871430e7b247cf0de9c0f32246068399c0b736870b7221969cceafa3ef42	Vulnerability Report	08-20-2026
Version	Pull String	Security (IBM Cloud)	Created

Usage Notes

Kafka Quick Start

Run

docker run -d --name kafka -p 9092:9092 kafka

Test

docker run --rm --name kafka -p 9092:9092 -e KAFKA_RUN_TESTS=true kafka

Check Logs

docker logs -f kafka

Stop

docker stop kafka
docker rm kafka