Why where is no kafka official docker image?

[chunzhenzyd]

Not actually issue, but want to know.
Zookeeper has official docker image.

[kofemann]

Well, there is one

https://hub.docker.com/r/confluentinc/cp-kafka

But it's badly documented, not flexible and intended to be used as part of the other services by confluent

[OneCricketeer]

@kofemann It's documented, perfectly flexible, and definitely is not tied to Confluent products... Please provide me any reference to back up your claims

[OneCricketeer]

This issue should be closed, anyway.

You have to open an issue in the Docker official-images repo to elect a new official image

[kofemann]

@OneCricketeer
just follow this two links

• https://hub.docker.com/r/confluentinc/cp-kafka
• https://hub.docker.com/r/wurstmeister/kafka/

And compare what you see.

[OneCricketeer]

@kofemann what about it?

I contribute to both. As well as bitnami/kafka and debezium/kafka

Both are open source. Both are documented (2) (3)

Both work with the entire Confluent Platform.

Confluent's actually work better in Mesos/k8s/Nomad than wurstmeisters, which mostly just work in the Swarm

The Confluent (and Bitnami) ones are actually built and tested nightly, as compared to these, which are done manually, AFAICT

[kofemann]

I will give it a try (though never touch the running system). One confusing thing is that cp-kafka versions doesn't match kafka versions.

[OneCricketeer]

One confusing thing is that cp-kafka versions doesn't match kafka versions

Do they need to?

https://docs.confluent.io/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html