Hi! The Kafka chart being used is here https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/kafka
| chart | application | | kafka-1.10.1 | 2.2.0 | $ kubectl get svc -n kafka NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE kafka-janitha ClusterIP 10.103.152.8 <none> 9092/TCP 5d19h kafka-janitha-headless ClusterIP None <none> 9092/TCP 5d19h kafka-janitha-zookeeper ClusterIP 10.108.191.161 <none> 2181/TCP,2888/TCP,3888/TCP 5d19h kafka-janitha-zookeeper-headless ClusterIP None <none> 2181/TCP,2888/TCP,3888/TCP 5d19h I am then port-forwarding like so kubectl port-forward --namespace postgresql svc/postgres-janitha-postgresql 5432:5432 --address 0.0.0.0 & kubectl port-forward --namespace kafka svc/kafka-janitha 9092:9092 --address 0.0.0.0 & kubectl port-forward --namespace activemq svc/activemq-tideworks-activemq 61616:61616 --address 0.0.0.0 & I have my application properties set like so where the ip is the private ip of the node (master). My IDE is running outside the cluster. tc.db.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://172.31.31.192:5432/tcb_configuration # activemq.base.url=tcp://172.31.31.192:61616?wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration=-1 # kafka.bootstrap.servers=172.31.31.192:9092 The application log states the following 17:36:45.617 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.618 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-5] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-5] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.667 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.668 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-5] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-5] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.717 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.718 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-5] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-5] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.768 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.768 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-5] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-5] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.818 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.818 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-5] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-5] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.868 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.869 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-5] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-5] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.918 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.919 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-5] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-5] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.969 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Initialize connection to node kafka-janitha-0.kafka-janitha-headless.kafka.svc.cluster.local:9092 (id: 1001 rack: null) for sending metadata request 17:36:45.969 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Initiating connection to node kafka-janitha-0.kafka-janitha-headless.kafka.svc.cluster.local:9092 (id: 1001 rack: null) 17:36:45.969 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-5] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-5] Give up sending metadata request since no node is available 17:36:45.969 [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-3] DEBUG org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient - [Producer clientId=producer-3] Error connecting to node kafka-janitha-0.kafka-janitha-headless.kafka.svc.cluster.local:9092 (id: 1001 rack: null) java.io.IOException: Can't resolve address: kafka-janitha-0.kafka-janitha-headless.kafka.svc.cluster.local:9092 at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.doConnect(Selector.java:223) ~[kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.connect(Selector.java:202) ~[kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.initiateConnect(NetworkClient.java:793) [kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.access$700(NetworkClient.java:62) [kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient$DefaultMetadataUpdater.maybeUpdate(NetworkClient.java:944) [kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient$DefaultMetadataUpdater.maybeUpdate(NetworkClient.java:848) [kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:458) [kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:239) [kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:163) [kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844) [?:?] Caused by: java.nio.channels.UnresolvedAddressException at sun.nio.ch.Net.checkAddress(Net.java:112) ~[?:?] at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:622) ~[?:?] at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.doConnect(Selector.java:221) ~[kafka-clients-1.0.2.jar:?] ... 9 more I think this is because my IDE which is sitting outside of the kube cluster is creates a producer that attempts to connect to kafka using the cluster dns name of the headless service. I haven't finished checking whether the application will run inside the kube cluster, but likely yes given that the following works $ kubectl create -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/dns/busybox.yaml $ kubectl -n default exec -ti busybox -- nslookup kafka-janitha-0.kafka-janitha-headless.kafka.svc.cluster.local Server: 10.96.0.10 Address 1: 10.96.0.10 kube-dns.kube-system.svc.cluster.local Name: kafka-janitha-0.kafka-janitha-headless.kafka.svc.cluster.local Address 1: 192.168.150.22 192-168-150-22.kafka-janitha.kafka.svc.cluster.local Is sort of setup possible? What am I missing / what do I not know? Thanks Janitha