This KIP targets to publish docker image for JVM based Apache Kafka.

POC

We did an initial POC of our image and compared with other existing popular Apache Kafka docker images

Image Name	Image size (Uncompressed)	Startup total time (in seconds)	Time to start the kafka server inside container (in seconds)	Memory Used	Java version	Apache Kafka version
Proposed apache/kafka with Java 21	457.86 MB	3.885	0.816	382.4 MB	21	3.6.0
Proposed apache/kafka with Java 17	460.76 MB	2.174	0.679	326 MB	17	3.5.1
bitnami/kafka	517.16 MB	3.469	0.889	344 MB	17	3.5.1
confluentinc/cp-kafka	876.4 MB	3.341	0.701	390.6 MB	11	7.5.0-ccs
ubuntu/kafka + ubuntu/zookeeper (Image doesn’t support kraft and source code is not public)	359.03 MB + 359.03 MB	1.425 + 0.636	0.827	335 MB + 78 MB	11	3.1.0

Note: ubuntu/kafka is smaller as it is making use of Apache Kafka:3.1.0 and Java 11. With same AK and java versions, our image size was 367MB

Public Interfaces

There will be a new additional artifact i.e. Apache Kafka docker image for every Apache Kafka release.
Sample docker-compose.yml
Quick start examples
Add public documentation

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