kafka, confluent - 'broker' exited with 137 exit code when running with docker

Question

I'm trying to use confluent for the first time and after less than a minute the 'broker' process exits with code 137.

How can I fix that?

idan ahal · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-18T12:41:00.673

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The default Docker memory is 2GB. Confluent needs at least 8 GB to operate properly.

Change this in the Docker settings.

Confluent documentation. See docker - section 2

edited Oct 18 '22 at 12:41

answered Oct 18 '22 at 11:54

idan ahal

You could also remove services you don't need to save memory requirements – OneCricketeer Oct 18 '22 at 13:04
Sure, But you still need to give it 8 GB of memory. – idan ahal Oct 18 '22 at 16:21
You don't if you remove Control Center and KSQL containers. You can start Kafka in KRaft mode with less than 2GB given to Docker – OneCricketeer Oct 18 '22 at 17:52
But we are talking about confluent. – idan ahal Oct 19 '22 at 07:18
So? Confluent wraps Apache Kafka. – OneCricketeer Oct 19 '22 at 15:58

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