You have an Apache Kafka topic that you want to consume via REST APIs (think curl or just a web browser), how to do it? The reply is Karapace an Open Source (Apache 2.0) tool providing Schema Registry and REST proxy functionality. Let’s check out how to quickly run it on Docker. Step 1: the Apache Kafka® Cluster You need an Apache Kafka cluster up & running, if you have one already you can skip to the next section.