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Kafka Module

Testcontainers can be used to automatically instantiate and manage Apache Kafka containers.

Currently, two different Kafka images are supported:

Note

org.testcontainers.containers.KafkaContainer is deprecated. Please use org.testcontainers.kafka.ConfluentKafkaContainer or org.testcontainers.kafka.KafkaContainer instead, depending on the used image.

Benefits

  • Running a single node Kafka installation with just one line of code
  • No need to manage external Zookeeper installation, required by Kafka.

Example

Using org.testcontainers.kafka.KafkaContainer

Create a KafkaContainer to use it in your tests:

KafkaContainer kafka = new KafkaContainer("apache/kafka-native:3.8.0")

Now your tests or any other process running on your machine can get access to running Kafka broker by using the following bootstrap server location:

kafka.getBootstrapServers()

Using org.testcontainers.kafka.ConfluentKafkaContainer

Note

Compatible with confluentinc/cp-kafka images version 7.4.0 and later.

Create a ConfluentKafkaContainer to use it in your tests:

ConfluentKafkaContainer kafka = new ConfluentKafkaContainer("confluentinc/cp-kafka:7.4.0")

Options

Using Kraft mode

Note

Only available for org.testcontainers.containers.KafkaContainer

KRaft mode was declared production ready in 3.3.1 (confluentinc/cp-kafka:7.3.x) 

KafkaContainer kafka = new KafkaContainer(DockerImageName.parse("confluentinc/cp-kafka:7.4.0")).withKraft()

See the versions interoperability matrix for more details.

Register listeners

There are scenarios where additional listeners are needed because the consumer/producer can be in another container in the same network or a different process where the port to connect differs from the default exposed port. E.g Toxiproxy.

KafkaContainer kafka = new KafkaContainer("apache/kafka-native:3.8.0")
    .withListener("kafka:19092")
    .withNetwork(network);

Container defined in the same network:

GenericContainer<?> kcat = new GenericContainer<>("confluentinc/cp-kcat:7.9.0")
    .withCreateContainerCmdModifier(cmd -> {
        cmd.withEntrypoint("sh");
    })
    .withCopyToContainer(Transferable.of("Message produced by kcat"), "/data/msgs.txt")
    .withNetwork(network)
    .withCommand("-c", "tail -f /dev/null")

Client using the new registered listener:

kcat.execInContainer("kcat", "-b", "kafka:19092", "-t", "msgs", "-P", "-l", "/data/msgs.txt");
String stdout = kcat
    .execInContainer("kcat", "-b", "kafka:19092", "-C", "-t", "msgs", "-c", "1")
    .getStdout();

Adding this module to your project dependencies

Add the following dependency to your pom.xml/build.gradle file:

testImplementation "org.testcontainers:kafka:1.21.3"

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.testcontainers</groupId>
    <artifactId>kafka</artifactId>
    <version>1.21.3</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>