Basic AKHQ running with docker (HTTP)

Introduction

This article describes basic case of running AKHQ with docker. All the code is available on my GitHub.

Specification:

- Protocol: HTTP

- AKHQ authorization: NO

Requirements:

- internet access - to download AKHQ docker image,

- installed docker - to run downloaded image,

- running kafka - visible within any connected network interface.

Configuration

First of all we have to create YAML file - to tell AKHQ where is our kafka running.

akhq:
  ui-options:
    topic-data:
      sort: Newest
  connections:
    local:
      properties:
        bootstrap.servers: "localhost:9092"

Then just run AKHQ docker image (on port 1790) with previously created YAML config:

docker run -it -p 1790:8080 --name akhq_basic_container -v application-basic.yml:/app/application.yml tchiotludo/akhq

Once container is created you can start simple by:

docker container start akhq_basic_container

All AKHQ config examples can be found here.