Connecting confluent CLI to confluent platform locally

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Possible a daft first time user question. I have installed the confluent CLI and also got a local version of the confluent platform up and running using the docker-compose file referenced in this quick start guide.

I know that I can run the services locally using the CLI directly, but I wanted some more control of the platform components hence I went the docker-compose route.

What I want to do now is connect the CLI to this local version of the platform. Have tried a number of things, but I can’t seem to find a definitive guide as to how to do this.

Apologies in advance if this a newbie daft question.

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Hi @smitp33,
You can use the same cli commands with docker containers as well.
Checkout the on-premises commands for confluent cli: link

For example

  • I am making use of this docker compose
  • Now to create topic: confluent kafka topic create "test-topic" --url http://localhost:8082 --no-authentication
    Similarly other commands can be used.
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Thanks so much for that info. The final gotcha was if you are actually logged into confluent cloud at the same time then you can’t run the commands as the --url and --no-authentication options are not present so the CLI is clever enough to restrict what you can do.