FastAPI & Next.js project: Flight Booking App With DevOps. Day 1 - 100 - Kafka + Docker Compose Setup (KRaft Mode) | Flight Booking Engine | Day 59

The theory is over—it’s time to spin up the infrastructure! 🏗️ In Day 59, we begin the Kafka implementation by setting up the environment. Before our FastAPI backend can send a single event, we need a robust Message Broker running locally. Today, we focus entirely on DevOps configuration. We are setting up Apache Kafka in KRaft mode (no Zookeeper required) alongside a visual interface to monitor our events. 💡 In this live build: Docker Compose Orchestration: Adding Kafka services to our existing stack. KRaft Mode: Configuring modern Kafka without the complexity of Zookeeper. Dual Listeners Explained: Solving the "localhost vs. container" networking confusion. Kafka UI: Setting up a dashboard to visualize topics and messages in real-time. Health Checks: Ensuring the broker is ready before the API attempts to connect. By the end, we will have a healthy, running Kafka cluster and a UI dashboard—ready for our API to start producing events. 📘 Watch the full playlist: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdtwawCR2QjmdfhM-7SzDOVGop373bbgW 📂 GitHub Repo (Public Mirror): 👉 https://github.com/KNehe/aero_bound_ventures-public.git 🔥 Subscribe for real fullstack DevOps & Engineering—no shortcuts. #FastAPI #Docker #ApacheKafka #DevOps #SystemDesign #KRaft