BigGIS Kafka

Docker container for Apache Kafka

Prerequisites

Docker Compose >= 1.9.0

Deployment

On local setup:

Note: If you want to access the Kafka Docker container remotely, you need to set DOCKER_HOST_IP environment variable to the publicly available IP address of the Docker Host.

docker-compose up -d

On Rancher:

• NFS server and Rancher NFS service need to be configured in the cluster. The NFS volumes zookeeper-data and kafka-data need to be created via the Rancher WebUI.
• Add host label kafka=true to any of your hosts.
• If you want Kafka to be accessible from outside the Rancher cluster, you to set the KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME environment variable to the hostname or IP of the labeled host.
• Create new Kafka stack kafka via Rancher WebUI and deploy docker-compose.rancher.yml.

Ports

• Kafka broker is running on port 9092
• Zookeeper is running on port 2181