Kafka in Docker

Getting the Jolokia agent running in a Kafka container requires three additional modifications to the docker run command. To illustrate the modifications needed, we’re going to assume that your docker run command looks like this initially:

docker run -p 2181:2181 -p 9092:9092 --env ADVERTISED_HOST=`docker-machine ip\`docker-machine active\`` --env ADVERTISED_PORT=9092 spotify/kafka

Update Docker Run Command

  1. Make the Jolokia JAR file available to the container by passing it in as a mounted volume.

    -v /opt/netuitive-agent/jolokia-jvm-1.3.4-agent.jar:/opt/netuitive-agent/jolokia-jvm-1.3.4-agent.jar

  2. Pass in the KAFKA_OPTS environment variable to Kafka so it starts with the Jolokia agent included.

    -e KAFKA_OPTS=-javaagent:/opt/netuitive-agent/jolokia-jvm-1.3.4-agent.jar=port=8778,host=0.0.0.0

  3. Expose the Jolokia port.

    -p 8778:8778

Here’s what the full command looks like with the three additional portions added:

docker run -p 2181:2181 -p 9092:9092 -p 8778:8778 -e ADVERTISED_HOST=`docker-machine ip \`docker-machine active\`` -e ADVERTISED_PORT=9092 -e KAFKA_OPTS=-javaagent:/opt/netuitive-agent/jolokia-jvm-1.3.4-agent.jar=port=8778,host=0.0.0.0 -v /opt/netuitive-agent/jolokia-jvm-1.3.4-agent.jar:/opt/netuitive-agent/jolokia-jvm-1.3.4-agent.jar spotify/kafka
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