Kafka with KRaft mode (Without zookeeper)

Question

Is anyone tried and worked on Kafka in KRaft mode - without zookeeper? If yes what configuration are required for the same.

Answer 1

You can find all necessary settings in the documentation

https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/raft

To simply start the broker from Kafka download folder, you can use

bin/test-kraft-server-start.sh --config config/kraft.properties

Or you can find various Docker images such as Bitnami's which offer the same