Redpanda Test Cluster

Three-broker Redpanda cluster with Redpanda Console for local testing.

Based on: https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-labs/docker-compose/three-brokers/

Prerequisites

• Docker and Docker Compose installed
• Task (taskfile) installed

Quick Start

task setup    # Download docker-compose.yml
task up       # Start the cluster
task console  # Open Redpanda Console in browser

Available Tasks

• task setup - Download docker-compose.yml from Redpanda Labs
• task up - Start the Redpanda cluster
• task down - Stop and remove the cluster
• task restart - Restart the cluster
• task logs - View cluster logs
• task console - Open Redpanda Console (http://localhost:8080)
• task status - Check cluster status
• task clean - Stop cluster and remove volumes

Cluster Configuration

Brokers

Three Redpanda brokers with the following external ports:

Console

• URL: http://localhost:8080
• Kafka Broker: redpanda-0:9092 (internal)
• Schema Registry: http://redpanda-0:8081
• Admin API: http://redpanda-0:9644

Connection Strings

From Host Machine

# Kafka
localhost:19092,localhost:29092,localhost:39092

# Schema Registry (any broker)
http://localhost:18081
http://localhost:28081
http://localhost:38081

From Docker Network

# Kafka
redpanda-0:9092,redpanda-1:9092,redpanda-2:9092

# Schema Registry
http://redpanda-0:8081

Notes

• The docker-compose.yml file is downloaded from Redpanda Labs and not committed to git
• Run task setup to download the latest version
• Cluster runs in dev-container mode with 1 CPU core per broker
• Data is persisted in Docker volumes: redpanda-0, redpanda-1, redpanda-2