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This guide is for setting up a local Kafka environment in a single machine quickly. A properly configured Kafka cluster is laborious to set up and has a lot of dependencies like Apache ZooKeeper etc. and that can be disconcerting if you just want to develop locally or put together a proof of concept prototype. This is obviously not the way to set up a production Kafka cluster as there is no security, redundancy, fault tolerance, scaling and a host of other requirements for a production grade environment.

Installing Docker on Ubuntu This post is essentially my notes on getting started quickily with Docker. I set this up in my lab machines running Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, the steps are based on the excellent instructions written on the Docker getting started guide Add the Docker project repository to APT sources sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates sudo apt-key adv \ --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 \ --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D echo "deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.