diff --git a/tools/kafka/docker-compose/README.adoc b/tools/kafka/docker-compose/README.adoc
index c79ab43fa..9d96255bc 100644
--- a/tools/kafka/docker-compose/README.adoc
+++ b/tools/kafka/docker-compose/README.adoc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 === Kafka Cluster
 Runs a multi-node Kafka cluster w/ 3 brokers available at `locahost:9091,localhost:9092,localhost:9093`.
 
-To start the brokers run the following command:
+To start the brokers using zookeeper for leader election, run the following command:
 [source,shell]
 ----
 docker-compose -f ./kafka-cluster.yml up
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ docker-compose -f ./kafka-cluster.yml down
 
 TIP: To start the containers in the foreground simply add `-d` to the start command. To stop containers that are running in the foreground simple issue `CTRL-C` command.
 
+To start a single node Kafka cluster using the `kraft` protocol, use the `kraft.yml` file instead.
+
 Running a quick test:
 
 Now that we started our clusters, let us try to produce data to a topic on the cluster and then consume from it.
diff --git a/tools/kafka/docker-compose/kraft.yml b/tools/kafka/docker-compose/kraft.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..668d97516
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/kafka/docker-compose/kraft.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+version: '3'
+
+services:
+
+  kafka:
+    image: apache/kafka:latest
+    container_name: kafka
+    hostname: kafka
+    ports:
+      - "9092:9092"
+      - "9101:9101"
+    environment:
+      KAFKA_NODE_ID: 1
+      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: 'CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_DOCKER:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT'
+      KAFKA_LISTENERS: 'PLAINTEXT_DOCKER://kafka:29092,CONTROLLER://kafka:29093,PLAINTEXT_HOST://0.0.0.0:9092'
+      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: 'PLAINTEXT_DOCKER://kafka:29092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:9092'
+      KAFKA_NUM_PARTITIONS: 10
+      KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
+      KAFKA_AUTO_CREATE_TOPICS_ENABLE: 'true'
+      KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
+      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR: 1
+      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
+      KAFKA_JMX_PORT: 9101
+      KAFKA_JMX_HOSTNAME: localhost
+      KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: 'broker,controller'
+      KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: '1@kafka:29093'
+      KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: 'PLAINTEXT_DOCKER'
+      KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: 'CONTROLLER'
+      KAFKA_LOG_DIRS: '/tmp/kraft-combined-logs'