Kafka Listeners - Explained Published Aug 2, 2018 by in Apache Kafka, Docker, Advertised.listeners, Listeners, Aws, Ec2, KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS at https://rmoff.net/2018/08/02/kafka-listeners-explained/ (This was cross-posted on the Confluent.io blog) This question comes up on StackOverflow and such places a lot, so here’s something to try and help. tl;dr : You need to set advertised.listeners
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