Pre-requisite Docker Compose
Get started with Conduktor in just a few minutes. This example builds a complete Conduktor deployment that consists of all Conduktor artifacts, Redpanda Kafka, schema registry and supporting services for data generation.

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Overview

Once deployed, you’ll have access to a fully functional Kafka stack integrated with Conduktor’s UI and backend services. This environment is ideal for trying out Conduktor’s features before deploying to a production environment. Get started
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The data generation service publishes a continuous stream of synthetic events that simulate an e-commerce business.
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Conduktor Gateway intercepts Kafka traffic to apply real-time operational controls — including encryption, decryption, data masking, and Traffic Control Policies — without requiring changes to producers or consumers.
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The intercepted data flows through the Conduktor Gateway proxy and lands in a Redpanda Kafka cluster with a schema registry enforcing structure and compatibility across topics.
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Conduktor Console provides a centralized UI-based control plane to manage both the Redpanda Kafka cluster and Conduktor Gateway, allowing you to:
  • monitor topics, schemas, consumer groups and connectors
  • define and apply Gateway policies
  • trace message flows
  • audit activity across the entire stack

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Data policies

The data policies configured in this get-started stack are:
PolicyDescription
ProducePolicyPluginEnsures produced messages adhere to configuration requirements. Parameters configure Block acks -1 and audit compression (GZIP, ZSTD, etc).
EncryptPluginEncrypts full payloads for topics matching pattern: .*_encrypted$. Check the customers_encrypted topic in the local-kafka cluster.
DecryptPluginDecrypts payloads on consume for topics matching .*_encrypted$. Shows plaintext in cdk-gateway.
FieldLevelDataMaskingPluginMasks profile.creditCardNumber, contact.email and contact.phone in topics matching pattern: ^[A-Za-z]*_masked$.
CreateTopicPolicyPluginValidates topic config: partitions have to be 1–3 or creation is Blocked.

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Run Conduktor

curl -L https://releases.conduktor.io/quick-start -o docker-compose.yml && docker compose up -d --wait && echo "Conduktor started on http://localhost:8080"