# Kafka workspace Single-node Kafka cluster together with several Kafka CLI tools in containerized dev/admin environment.

## Why this images 1. If you need a tool to interact with Kakfa, such as produce and consume events, explore, manage, query and troubleshoot your Kafka clusters 2. To directly access Kafka inside your kubernetes cluster. 3. A better Kafka docker image for local dev environment. You get single-nnode Kafka together with the toolset to work with it. 4. If you want to get started with Kafka easy and fast. Motivation explained in [this Medium article](https://medium.com/@bluxmit/the-better-development-experience-with-kafka-54f15705a8ee) ## Start ``` docker run --name rwid-1 -d -p 8020-8040:8020-8040 alnoda/kafka-workspace ``` and open [localhost:8020](http://localhost:8020) in browser. ## Features **Single-node Kafka cluster** **Kafka CLI tools** - [kcat](https://github.com/edenhill/kcat) - generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka. - [kafkactl](https://github.com/deviceinsight/kafkactl) - command-line interface for interaction with Apache Kafka. - [trubka](https://github.com/xitonix/trubka) - Kafka CLI tool built in Go which gives you everything you need. - [kt](https://github.com/fgeller/kt) - Kafka tool that likes JSON. - [kcli](https://github.com/cswank/kcli) - Kafka read only command line browser. **Dev tools:** - [**Eclipse Theia**](https://theia-ide.org/docs/) - open source version of popular Visual Studio Code IDE. Theia is trully open-source, has VS-Code extensions and works in browser. This means it can run inside a docker container on local machine or in cloud. A lot of beautiful color themes and many common plugins are already installed to save time. - [**Terminal**](https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd) - secure browser-based terminal. - [**FileBrowser**](https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser) - manage files and folders inside the workspace, and exchange data between local environment and the workspace - [**Cronicle**](https://github.com/jhuckaby/Cronicle) - task scheduler and runner, with a web based front-end UI. It handles both scheduled, repeating and on-demand jobs, targeting any number of worker servers, with real-time stats and live log viewer. - [**Static File Server**](https://github.com/vercel/serve) - view any static html sites as easy as if you do it on your local machine. Serve static websites easily. - [**Ungit**](https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit) - rings user friendliness to git without sacrificing the versatility of it. - [**MkDocs**](https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/) - create awesome documentation for your project with only markdown. - [**Midnight Commander**](https://midnight-commander.org/) - Feature rich visual file manager with internal text viewer and editor. - [**Process Monitor**](https://htop.dev/) - Monitor running process and resource utilization. - Quicklaunch UI with getting started tutorial Image is built from **Ubuntu 20.4** with the additional CLI apps - [Zsh](https://www.zsh.org/), [Oh my Zsh](https://ohmyz.sh/) - Python 3, Pip - Node/nodeenv - curl, wget, telnet, jq - **Git:** git, git-flow, lazygit - **File browsers:** mc, xplr - **Text editors:** nano, vim, mcedit - **System monitors:** ncdu, htop, glances, vizex - **Process Control:** supervisord - **Job scheduler:** cron ## Docs See our guides - [**getting started**](https://docs.alnoda.org/get-started/common-features/) - [**workspace tutorial**](https://docs.alnoda.org/kafka-workspace/tutorial/) - [**workspace docs**](https://docs.alnoda.org/kafka-workspace/) - [**project docs**](https://docs.alnoda.org/)