This repository contains a Docker Compose YAML file which allows you to start local Apache Kafka cluster. It uses the Strimzi container images and is currently based on Strimzi 0.46.0 / Apache Kafka 4.0.0. As Kafka 4.0.0 does not support ZooKeeper anymore, there is only a KRaft based compose file. If you want to use ZooKeeper, check the 0.45.0 tag which is based on Strimzi 0.45.0 and Apache Kafka 3.9.0 and still has ZooKeeper support as well.
After installing Docker / Docker Compose on your machine, run docker compose up to start the Kafka broker. To shut it down, run docker compose down.