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Public Interfaces

• There will be a new additional artifact i.e. Apache Kafka docker image for every Apache Kafka release.

• Sample Example docker -compose.ymlcompose files will be provided

• Quick start examples will be providedAdd public documentation

• Public documentation will be added

• There will be two ways for a user to provide configs to docker image:-
  • Environment variables
  • File input
• Kafka server will start once kafka container is brought up and user will be able to access it using any kafka client

Proposed Changes

• There will be a docker image as an additional artifact for every Apache Kafka release.
• This docker image will consist of JVM based Kafka and will have support for Linux based AMD and ARM architectures. 
• Add sanity tests to run against the new docker image for each tag. 
• Add release script to extend the Apache release process to publish a new docker image to public DockerHub.

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