Leader Not Available Kafka in Console Producer

Question

I am trying to use Kafka.
All configurations are done properly but when I try to produce message from console I keep getting the following error

WARN Err         


        

Answer 1

Adding this since it may help others. A Common problem can be a misconfiguration of advertised.host.name. With Docker using docker-compose setting the name of the service inside KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME wont work unless you set the hostname as well. docker-compose.yml example:

  kafka:
    image: wurstmeister/kafka
    ports:
      - "9092:9092"
    hostname: kafka
    environment:
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME: kafka
      KAFKA_CREATE_TOPICS: "test:1:1"
      KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: zookeeper:2181
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

The above without hostname: kafka can issue a LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE when trying to connect. You can find an example of a working docker-compose configuration here