"kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClientTimeoutException: Timed out waiting for connection" ONLY DURING LISTING TOPICS

docker apache-kafka docker-compose apache-zookeeper

--zookeeper zookeeper:2181 seems to have worked fine

--zookeeper localhost:2181 will always fail inside the kafka container because it's not running a zookeeper server

Note: latest kafka versions support using --bootstrap-server instead, so you could use kafka:9092 or localhost:9092 from the kafka container

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