I want to create a dockerize project with Node.js and Kafka

So I read multiple tutorials, but some examples use bitnami/kafka with bitnami/zookeeper

and some examples use confluentinc/cp-kafka with confluentinc/cp-zookeeper in docker file.

Note: And also I need to a UI for managing Apache Kafka, so based on kafka-ui, It uses confluentinc/cp-kafka, and I can't use it with bitnami/kafka.

What is the difference between bitnami/kafka and confluentinc/cp-kafka and which one is better to use?

CodePudding user response：

bitnami/kafka just contains Apache Kafka. confluentinc/cp-kafka contains Confluent Community which is an additional platform built by Confluent which extends Apache Kafka.

You can check what the platform includes at https://www.confluent.io/product/confluent-platform/ (Features section, brown circles).

kafka-ui works with Apache Kafka so should work with any of the two images, although since it also serves as a UI for some of the Confluent platform components (schema registry, Kafka Connect), the examples use the confluentinc image. If you are not going to use these features, any docker image will work just fine.