I have installed confluent-oss-5.0.0 on Azure VM and exposed all necessary ports to access using public IP Address.
I tried to change the etc/kafka/server.properties below things to achieve but no luck
Approach - 1
listeners=PLAINTEXT://:9092
advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://<publicIP>:9092
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Approach - 2
advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://<publicIP>:9092
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Approach - 3
listeners=PLAINTEXT://<publicIP>:9092
I experienced below error
pj@pj-HP-EliteBook-840-G1:~/confluent-kafka/confluent-oss-5.0.0/bin$ kafka-console-producer --broker-list <publicIp>:9092 --topic pj_test123>dfsds
[2019-03-25 19:13:38,784] WARN [Producer clientId=console-producer] Connection to node -1 could not be established. Broker may not be available. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
pj@pj-HP-EliteBook-840-G1:~/confluent-kafka/confluent-oss-5.0.0/bin$ kafka-console-producer --broker-list <publicIp>:9092 --topic pj_test123
>message1
>message2
>[2019-03-25 19:20:13,216] ERROR Error when sending message to topic pj_test123 with key: null, value: 3 bytes with error: (org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.ErrorLoggingCallback)
org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Expiring 2 record(s) for pj_test123-0: 1503 ms has passed since batch creation plus linger time
[2019-03-25 19:20:13,218] ERROR Error when sending message to topic pj_test123 with key: null, value: 3 bytes with error: (org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.ErrorLoggingCallback)
pj@pj-HP-EliteBook-840-G1:~/confluent-kafka/confluent-oss-5.0.0/bin$ kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server <publicIp>:9092 --topic pj_test123 --from-beginning
[2019-03-25 19:29:27,742] WARN [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=console-consumer-42352] Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 2 : {pj_test123=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
pj@pj-HP-EliteBook-840-G1:~/confluent-kafka/confluent-oss-5.0.0/bin$ kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server <publicIp>:9092 --topic pj_test123 --from-beginning
[2019-03-25 19:27:06,589] WARN [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=console-consumer-33252] Connection to node 0 could not be established. Broker may not be available. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
All other service like zookeeper, kafka-connect and restAPI are working fine using the <PublicIP>:<port>
kafka-topics --zookeeper 13.71.115.20:2181 --list --- This is working
Ref: Not able to access messages from confluent kafka on EC2
https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#brokerconfigs
Why I cannot connect to Kafka from outside?
Solutions
Thanks, @Robin Moffatt, It works for me. I do below changes along with allowing all Kafka related ports on Azure networking
kafka@kafka:~/confluent-oss-5.0.0$ sudo vi etc/kafka/server.properties
listeners=INTERNAL://0.0.0.0:9092,EXTERNAL://0.0.0.0:19092
listener.security.protocol.map=INTERNAL:PLAINTEXT,EXTERNAL:PLAINTEXT
advertised.listeners=INTERNAL://<privateIp>:9092,EXTERNAL://<publicIp>:19092
inter.broker.listener.name=INTERNAL