# How to successfully connect my own Producer to Lenses 6 Community edition embedded Kafka? **URL:** \ **Category:** Lenses Community Edition\ **Created:** [November 22, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/how-to-successfully-connect-my-own-producer-to-lenses-6-community-edition-embedded-kafka/308 "2024-11-22T18:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simon\_Duchene\_lenses](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/ask.lenses.io/simon_duchene_lenses/32/104_2.png) [@Simon\_Duchene\_lenses](https://ask.lenses.io/u/Simon_Duchene_lenses)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/how-to-successfully-connect-my-own-producer-to-lenses-6-community-edition-embedded-kafka/308/1 "2024-11-22T18:46:49Z")
The Lenses Community edition 6 preview is out. It includes Lenses 6 as well as a self-contained Kafka broker, Schema Registry and Kafka Connect cluster. But it also allows you to connect Lenses to your own Kafka cluster. [https://lenses.io/apache-kafka-docker/](https://lenses.io/apache-kafka-docker/) and docs: [Quick Start | Lenses Docs](https://docs.lenses.io/latest/getting-started/quickstart) When running on a localhost and deployed via docker-compose : How to produce messages to the local Kafka broker that’s contained in the docker-compose? ---
**Author:** ![Simon\_Duchene\_lenses](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/ask.lenses.io/simon_duchene_lenses/32/104_2.png) [@Simon\_Duchene\_lenses](https://ask.lenses.io/u/Simon_Duchene_lenses)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/how-to-successfully-connect-my-own-producer-to-lenses-6-community-edition-embedded-kafka/308/2 "2024-11-22T18:49:30Z")
By default, in the docker-compose file for the free Lenses Community, the ADV\_HOST is set to `kafka-demo` which also represents the Docker network. Therefore, to successfully connect your own Producer and send messages to the local/embedded Kafka broker, you would need to follow 2 steps : 1: Add line 89 of docker compose , to expose kafka port 9092 : `ports:` ` - 9092:9092` 2 : add `127.0.0.1 kafka-demo` …to your `etc/hosts` file to resolve `kafka-demo` . (on windows, the host file is at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.file ) then you can have your code produce messages to `localhost:9092`