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+ARG REGISTRY=swh-jenkins
+FROM $REGISTRY/tox as kafka_fetcher
+
+USER root
+RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update && \
+  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    default-jdk && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# retrieve and uncompress kafka application, checking it's the
+# expected archive we retrieve
+ARG SCALA_VERSION=2.12
+ARG KAFKA_VERSION=2.1.1
+ARG KAFKA_APP=kafka_${SCALA_VERSION}-${KAFKA_VERSION}
+ARG TARBALL=${KAFKA_APP}.tgz
+ARG KAFKA_SHA512SUM=a2e8168e8de6b45e8fca1f2883f0744d3c5a939b70d8a47a5428b72188501d4c2fc11bc35759f2392680d4e8ecf2fa9d0e518e77fd28393afba22194ad018b10
+ARG CHECKSUMS=${TARBALL}.sha512
+
+RUN wget http://apache.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.apache.org/dist/kafka/${KAFKA_VERSION}/${TARBALL} && \
+    ( echo "${KAFKA_SHA512SUM}  ${TARBALL}" > ${CHECKSUMS} ) && \
+    sha512sum -c ${CHECKSUMS} && \
+    tar xvf ${TARBALL} -C /opt && \
+    ln -s /opt/${KAFKA_APP} /opt/kafka
+
+FROM $REGISTRY/tox
+USER root
+WORKDIR /opt
+COPY --from=kafka_fetcher /opt/ .
+RUN chown -R jenkins: /opt/${KAFKA_APP} /opt/kafka
+USER jenkins