'Kafka topic creation: Timed out waiting for a node assignment

Ive got a local kafka running using the following docker-compose.yml

version: '2'
services:
  zookeeper:
    image: "confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:5.0.1"
    environment:
      ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT: 2181
      ZOOKEEPER_TICK_TIME: 2000

  kafka:
    image: "confluentinc/cp-enterprise-kafka:5.0.1"
    ports:
      - '9092:9092'
    depends_on:
      - zookeeper
    environment:
      KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
      KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: zookeeper:2181
      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT
      KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://kafka:29092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:9092
      KAFKA_METRIC_REPORTERS: io.confluent.metrics.reporter.ConfluentMetricsReporter
      KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 100

Trying to run a basic create topic using kafka-client 2.1.0 in Scala:

val props = new Properties()
props.setProperty(AdminClientConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "localhost:9092")

val adminClient: AdminClient = AdminClient.create(props)
val newTopic = new NewTopic("test", 1, 1.toShort)
val topicsF = adminClient.createTopics(List(newTopic).asJavaCollection)
val result = topicsF.all().get()

but after some time I get:

org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for a node assignment.

I can create a topic using the command line:

kafka-topics --create \
    --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
    --replication-factor 1 \
    --partitions 1 \
    --topic test
Created topic "test".

kafka AdminClient API Timed out waiting for node assignment describes a similar problem using Java but the comment suggests that a system restart fixed the issue which is not the case on my side.

Solution 1:^[1]

If you're running Kafka in Docker (or similar) you need to configure the listeners correctly. This article describes it in detail.

Here's an example of a Docker Compose that you can use to access Kafka from your host machine.

Disclaimer: I wrote the article :)

Solution 2:^[2]

As @suh pointed out.

An easier approach is uncomment kafka server.properties at line :listeners=PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092 and it should work.

Solution 3:^[3]

I think the localhost is the problem. In your bootstrap-servers properties use the advertised host (192.168.99.100) that you've defined in your compose file, instead of localhost, that should work.

Solution 4:^[4]

My advertised listeners were wrong and i did not have KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP configured.

A good example i found here:

KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT,SSL:SSL,SSL_HOST:SSL,SASL_SSL:SASL_SSL,SASL_SSL_HOST:SASL_SSL
KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://kafka1:29092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:9092,SSL://kafka1:29093,SSL_HOST://localhost:9093,SASL_SSL://kafka1:29094,SASL_SSL_HOST://localhost:9094

P.S: Use only what you need, for me it was SASL_SSL & SASL_SSL_HOST.

Solution 5:^[5]

the main thing you have to do is

first open your kafka server.properties from this path

nano kafka-directory/config/server.properties
now go to change this line. listeners=PLAINTEXT://:9092 with this

listeners=PLAINTEXT://your ip address:9092

your ip address must be an IP of the same network with the machine where you attempt to connect to kafka i mean if the ip of the client machine is late say 192.168.10.1 your listeners ip configuration must be as:

listeners=PLAINTEXT://192.168.10.*:9092

next modifie this configuration advertised.listeners= to this

advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://your ip address:9092

thes two configurations must have the same IP and port at the end you got some thing like.

listeners=PLAINTEXT://192.168.10.10:9092
advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://192.168.10.10:9092

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Solution	Source
Solution 1	lloiacono
Solution 2	Nakamoto
Solution 3	Bitswazsky
Solution 4	jumping_monkey
Solution 5	Mukendi Emmanuel

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