Start a Cluster of Redpanda Brokers with Redpanda Console in Docker

This Docker Compose example starts three Redpanda brokers and Redpanda Console.

This Docker Compose file is also used in the Redpanda Quickstart.

Prerequisites

You must have Docker and Docker Compose installed on your host machine.

Run the lab

  1. Download the following Docker Compose file on your local file system.

    Reveal the Docker Compose file
    docker-compose.yml
    networks:
  redpanda_network:
    driver: bridge
volumes:
  redpanda-0: null
  redpanda-1: null
  redpanda-2: null
services:
  redpanda-0:
    command:
      - redpanda
      - start
      - --kafka-addr internal://0.0.0.0:9092,external://0.0.0.0:19092
      # Address the broker advertises to clients that connect to the Kafka API.
      # Use the internal addresses to connect to the Redpanda brokers'
      # from inside the same Docker network.
      # Use the external addresses to connect to the Redpanda brokers'
      # from outside the Docker network.
      - --advertise-kafka-addr internal://redpanda-0:9092,external://localhost:19092
      - --pandaproxy-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8082,external://0.0.0.0:18082
      # Address the broker advertises to clients that connect to the HTTP Proxy.
      - --advertise-pandaproxy-addr internal://redpanda-0:8082,external://localhost:18082
      - --schema-registry-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8081,external://0.0.0.0:18081
      # Redpanda brokers use the RPC API to communicate with each other internally.
      - --rpc-addr redpanda-0:33145
      - --advertise-rpc-addr redpanda-0:33145
      # Mode dev-container uses well-known configuration properties for development in containers.
      - --mode dev-container
      # Tells Seastar (the framework Redpanda uses under the hood) to use 1 core on the system.
      - --smp 1
      - --default-log-level=info
    image: docker.redpanda.com/redpandadata/redpanda:v25.1.1
    container_name: redpanda-0
    volumes:
      - redpanda-0:/var/lib/redpanda/data
    networks:
      - redpanda_network
    ports:
      - 18081:18081
      - 18082:18082
      - 19092:19092
      - 19644:9644
  redpanda-1:
    command:
      - redpanda
      - start
      - --kafka-addr internal://0.0.0.0:9092,external://0.0.0.0:29092
      - --advertise-kafka-addr internal://redpanda-1:9092,external://localhost:29092
      - --pandaproxy-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8082,external://0.0.0.0:28082
      - --advertise-pandaproxy-addr internal://redpanda-1:8082,external://localhost:28082
      - --schema-registry-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8081,external://0.0.0.0:28081
      - --rpc-addr redpanda-1:33145
      - --advertise-rpc-addr redpanda-1:33145
      - --mode dev-container
      - --smp 1
      - --default-log-level=info
      - --seeds redpanda-0:33145
    image: docker.redpanda.com/redpandadata/redpanda:v25.1.1
    container_name: redpanda-1
    volumes:
      - redpanda-1:/var/lib/redpanda/data
    networks:
      - redpanda_network
    ports:
      - 28081:28081
      - 28082:28082
      - 29092:29092
      - 29644:9644
    depends_on:
      - redpanda-0
  redpanda-2:
    command:
      - redpanda
      - start
      - --kafka-addr internal://0.0.0.0:9092,external://0.0.0.0:39092
      - --advertise-kafka-addr internal://redpanda-2:9092,external://localhost:39092
      - --pandaproxy-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8082,external://0.0.0.0:38082
      - --advertise-pandaproxy-addr internal://redpanda-2:8082,external://localhost:38082
      - --schema-registry-addr internal://0.0.0.0:8081,external://0.0.0.0:38081
      - --rpc-addr redpanda-2:33145
      - --advertise-rpc-addr redpanda-2:33145
      - --mode dev-container
      - --smp 1
      - --default-log-level=info
      - --seeds redpanda-0:33145
    image: docker.redpanda.com/redpandadata/redpanda:v25.1.1
    container_name: redpanda-2
    volumes:
      - redpanda-2:/var/lib/redpanda/data
    networks:
      - redpanda_network
    ports:
      - 38081:38081
      - 38082:38082
      - 39092:39092
      - 39644:9644
    depends_on:
      - redpanda-0
  console:
    container_name: redpanda-console
    image: docker.redpanda.com/redpandadata/console:v3.0.0
    networks:
      - redpanda_network
    entrypoint: /bin/sh
    command: -c 'echo "$$CONSOLE_CONFIG_FILE" > /tmp/config.yml; /app/console'
    environment:
      CONFIG_FILEPATH: /tmp/config.yml
      CONSOLE_CONFIG_FILE: |
        kafka:
          brokers: ["redpanda-0:9092"]
        schemaRegistry:
          enabled: true
          urls: ["http://redpanda-0:8081"]
        redpanda:
          adminApi:
            enabled: true
            urls: ["http://redpanda-0:9644"]
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    depends_on:
      - redpanda-0
    yaml

  2. Set the REDPANDA_VERSION environment variable to the version of Redpanda that you want to run. For all available versions, see the GitHub releases.

    For example:

    export REDPANDA_VERSION=25.1.1
    bash

  3. Set the REDPANDA_CONSOLE_VERSION environment variable to the version of Redpanda Console that you want to run. For all available versions, see the GitHub releases.

    You must use at least version v3.0.0 of Redpanda Console to deploy this lab.

    For example:

    export REDPANDA_CONSOLE_VERSION=3.0.0
    bash

  4. Run the following in the directory where you saved the Docker Compose file:

    docker compose up -d
    bash

  5. Open Redpanda Console at localhost:8080.

Clean up

To shut down and delete the containers along with all your cluster data:

docker compose down -v
bash