diff --git a/kafka/.gitignore b/kafka/.gitignore
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+kafka/kafka_2.12-2.1.1.tgz*
+*tgz*
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diff --git a/kafka/Dockerfile b/kafka/Dockerfile
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+ARG REGISTRY=swh-jenkins
+FROM $REGISTRY/tox
+
+USER root
+RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && \
+  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    default-jdk && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# install kafka
+RUN wget http://apache.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.1.1/kafka_2.12-2.1.1.tgz
+RUN tar xvf kafka_2.12-2.1.1.tgz -C /opt
+RUN ln -s /opt/kafka_2.12-2.1.1 /opt/kafka
+RUN chown -R jenkins: /opt/kafka
+
+USER jenkins
diff --git a/kafka/retrieve-kafka.sh b/kafka/retrieve-kafka.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+kafka=kafka_2.12-2.1.1
+kafka_pkg=$kafka.tgz
+kafka_root_dir=/opt
+kafka_dir=$kafka_root_dir/$kafka
+
+echo "Kafka installation started."
+
+if [ ! -f $kafka_pkg ]; then
+  echo "Kafka download"
+  wget http://apache.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.1.1/$kafka_pkg
+  echo "a2e8168e8de6b45e8fca1f2883f0744d3c5a939b70d8a47a5428b72188501d4c2fc11bc35759f2392680d4e8ecf2fa9d0e518e77fd28393afba22194ad018b10  $kafka_pkg" > $kafka_pkg.expected.sha512
+  sha512sum $kafka_pkg.sha512
+
+  diff $kafka_pkg.expected.sha512 $kafka_pkg.sha512
+  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Kafka download: failed to retrieve $kafka_pkg";
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  echo "Kafka download done"
+fi
+
+if [ -d $kafka_dir ]; then
+  echo "Kafka extraction"
+
+  tar xvf $kafka_pkg -C $kafka_root_dit
+  ln -s $kafka_root_dir/$kafka $kafka_dir
+  echo "Kafka extraction done"
+fi
+
+echo "Kafka installation done. Kafka is installed at $kafka_dir"