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Docker Operations

In this section, we provide a closer look at how to run a Confluent Platform cluster on Docker. If you are looking for a simple tutorial, you should refer instead to the Quick Start for Apache Kafka using Confluent Platform (Docker).

We will cover the following topics:

• Monitoring: How to set up monitoring with JMX and recommendations for extending the images to use other monitoring solutions.
• Logging: Using log4j in a Docker setup.
• Networking: Bridge and host networking (including caveats for each).
• Mounting External Volumes: This is important when running Kafka Brokers and ZooKeeper on Docker, as they require a persistent filesystem.

• Kafka Monitoring and Metrics Using JMX
  • Configure Environment
  • Configure Security
  • Configure Kafka and ZooKeeper
    • Settings
    • Launching Kafka and ZooKeeper with JMX Enabled
  • Configure other Confluent Platform components
• Configure Docker Logging
  • log4j log levels
  • Change log outputs
• Mounting Docker External Volumes
  • Data Volumes for Kafka and ZooKeeper
  • Security: Data Volumes for Configuring Secrets
  • Configuring Connect with External JARs