Hi, We currently have 3 types of container images: - Apache Kafka JVM - Apache Kafka Native, added via KIP-974 [0] - Docker Official, added via KIP-1028 [1]
However we've not really put effort in maintaining the Native and Docker Official images. For KIP-974, the kafka-native images are advertised as not for production. There is also no defined plan to make them production-ready in the future. The native images rely on generated metadata files to function. Unfortunately we don't have the infra and tooling in GitHub to update these files. As a matter of fact, it seems the native images don't work when SASL is enabled [2, 3]. For KIP-1028, we only produced a Docker Official image for Kafka 3.7.0 [4]. I can't seem to find it on DockerHub. There was a PR for 3.8.0 but it was never merged [5]. We also did not update the release process, so we never published newer images. >From the KIP, the main benefit is that these images are "Actively rebuild for updates and security fixes" but from reading the KIP it's not clear to me who's doing the rebuilding. In both cases, it's worth considering whether we want to keep these and in that case ensure we properly maintain them, or if we decide we can't do it. Thanks, Mickael 0: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/KZizDw 1: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/0AmpEQ 2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-19583 3: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-19584 4: https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/docker/docker_official_images 5: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/16768
