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These days, you don't need Zookeeper to run a Kafka cluster. Instead, when correctly configured, Kafka uses the Raft  algorithm (where "the nodes trust the elected leader"[ Wikipedia ]) to coordinate itself.

I started to follow Gunnar Morling's blog but it seems his version of Kafka containers have not been updated so I used Bitnami's . However, configuring them to run a Raft cluster proved difficult.