Connect to Kafka on host from Docker (ksqlDB)

Modify Kafka’s server.properties listener.security.protocol.map=PLAINTEXT_DOCKER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_LOCAL:PLAINTEXT listeners=PLAINTEXT_DOCKER://:29092,PLAINTEXT_LOCAL://localhost:9092 advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT_DOCKER://host.docker.internal:29092,PLAINTEXT_LOCAL://localhost:9092 inter.broker.listener.name=PLAINTEXT_LOCAL Update your Compose like so to point at the host rather than itself version: ‘3.9’ services: # TODO: add schema-registry # environment: # SCHEMA_REGISTRY_KAFKASTORE_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS: host.docker.internal:29092 # extra_hosts: # – “host.docker.internal:host-gateway” # or any other Kafka client ksqldb-server: image: confluentinc/ksqldb-server:0.18.0 hostname: ksqldb-server container_name: ksqldb-server ports: – “8088:8088” extra_hosts: – … Read more