kafka-python: producer is not able to connect

Question

kafka-python (1.0.0) throws error while connecting to the broker. At the same time /usr/bin/kafka-console-producer and /usr/bin/kafka-console-consumer work fine.

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Answer 1

In your server.properties file make sure he Listener IP is set to your box Ip address which is accessible to remote machine. By default it is localhost

Update this line in your server.properties:

listeners=PLAINTEXT://:9092

Also make sure you don't have a firewall which might be blocking other IP addresses to reach you. If you have sudo previleges. The try disabling the firewall.

sudo systemctl stop firewalld