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pik4
pik4

Reputation: 1373

Docker container networking - Kafka Producer

I would like to produce messages from a container A to a Kafka topic in a container B, but I am facing some weird issues with the networking of these containers. Do you have any idea on how I can connect those containers in a proper way? The problem is that the collector service cannot see the kafka from the other container and cannot add messages to it. More specifically I have the services below:

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.5'
services:
  zookeeper:
    image: confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:latest
    ports:
      - "2181:2181"
    environment:
      ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT: 2181
      ZOOKEEPER_TICK_TIME: 2000
      ADVERTISED_HOST: zookeeper
      ADVERTISED_PORT: 2181
    extra_hosts:
      - "moby:127.0.0.1"
    networks:
      - meetup-net

  kafka:
    image: confluentinc/cp-kafka:latest
    depends_on:
      - zookeeper
    ports:
      - "9092:9092"
    environment:
      KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
      KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: zookeeper:2181
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092
      KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
    extra_hosts:
      - "moby:127.0.0.1"
    networks:
      - meetup-net

collector:
    image: collector:v1
    environment:
      - kafka-bootstrap-servers=docker_kafka_1.docker_meetup-net
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - kafka
    networks:
      - meetup-net
networks:
  meetup-net:
    driver: bridge

and on the other side I have the application.conf file 

streaming {
  window-size = 50
  window-interval = 5

  kafka-bootstrap-servers = ${?kafka-bootstrap-servers}
  kafka-bootstrap-servers = "localhost:9092"

  sink-topic = ${?source-topic}
  sink-topic = "meetup"

  key-value-json-path = ${key-value-json-path}
  key-value-json-path = "./data/keyvalue"

  source-topic-checkpoint-location = ${source-topic-checkpoint-location}
  source-topic-checkpoint-location = "./target/source-topic"

  sink-topic-checkpoint-location = ${sink-topic-checkpoint-location}
  sink-topic-checkpoint-location = "./target/sink-topic"
}

zookeeper.server = ${?zookeeper-server}
zookeeper.server = "localhost:2181"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 962

Answers (1)

Robin Moffatt
Robin Moffatt

Reputation: 32100

You need to set KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS correctly.

At the moment KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092 means that any client connecting to the broker will get localhost as the broker address on which to connect for subsequent requests. Unless the client is running on the broker (which it isn't here) then you need to change this configuration. For running in a self-contained Docker env this is easy enough:

KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://kafka:29092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:9092

Now any client connection should be to kafka:29092. This also means that you can connect a client running on your Docker host to the Kafka broker which can be useful e.g. when running on a laptop and running a client locally.

Here is a sample Docker Compose showing this in action.

Upvotes: 3

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