Hi everyone, Thanks, Adam, for raising this — indeed, the deprecation of Bitnami’s Kafka Docker images poses a challenge for projects depending on them.
As an alternative, our team at SolDevelo maintains a set of open-source, Bitnami-compatible container images, including Kafka, that are continuously updated, secure, and production-ready. They are fully compatible with the original Bitnami images and can serve as a drop-in replacement without requiring configuration changes. You can find more information and links to the Docker Hub repositories here: https://soldevelo.com/services/bitnami-container-images-maintained-by-soldevelo/ These images are: * Free and open-source * Optimized for performance and CI/CD pipelines * Continuously maintained with security updates * Fully compatible with the Bitnami image structure We’d be happy to collaborate or assist with testing or migration if the community decides to explore this direction. Also, we'd love to hear your thoughts — are there any other container images or specific needs that would be helpful for your use cases? Best regards, Jakub. On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM Ádám Sághy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi fellow Fineracters, > > It looks like Bitnami has stopped publishing new Docker images for Apache > Kafka: https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/kafka > > The existing images have been moved to a new repository: > https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnamilegacy/kafka. However, these will no > longer receive updates. > > We’ve been using their Kafka image in docker-compose-postgresql-kafka.yml, > which in turn is referenced by smoke-messaging.ymlfor "Smoke Testing with > Kafka.” > > I’ve opened a PR to switch to the latest image from the “legacy” > repository for now. That said, since it’s no longer maintained, we’ll > eventually need to choose an alternative source. > > Best, > Adam > -- *Jakub Sławiński* Chief Technical Officer [email protected] / +48 514 780 384 -- * SolDevelo* Sp. z o.o. [LLC] / www.soldevelo.com <http://www.soldevelo.com> Al. Zwycięstwa 96/98, 81-451, Gdynia, Poland Phone: +48 58 782 45 40 / Fax: +48 58 782 45 41
