diff --git a/kafka/Dockerfile b/kafka/Dockerfile
--- a/kafka/Dockerfile
+++ b/kafka/Dockerfile
@@ -3,15 +3,16 @@
 
 # retrieve and uncompress kafka application, checking it's the
 # expected archive we retrieve
-ARG SCALA_VERSION=2.12
-ARG KAFKA_VERSION=2.4.0
+ARG SCALA_VERSION=2.13
+ARG KAFKA_VERSION=2.6.0
 ARG KAFKA_APP=kafka_${SCALA_VERSION}-${KAFKA_VERSION}
 ARG TARBALL=${KAFKA_APP}.tgz
-ARG KAFKA_SHA512SUM=53b52f86ea56c9fac62046524f03f75665a089ea2dae554aefe3a3d2694f2da88b5ba8725d8be55f198ba80695443559ed9de7c0b2a2817f7a6141008ff79f49
+ARG KAFKA_SHA512SUM=D884E4DF7D85B4FFF54CA9CD987811C58506AD7871B9ED7114BBAFA6FEE2E79F43D04C550EEA471F508B08EA34B4316EA1E529996066FD9B93FCF912F41F6165
 ARG CHECKSUMS=${TARBALL}.sha512
+ARG APACHE_MIRROR_URL=https://archive.apache.org
 
 RUN mkdir /home/jenkins/opt
-RUN curl -fsSLo ${TARBALL} http://apache.mirrors.ovh.net/ftp.apache.org/dist/kafka/${KAFKA_VERSION}/${TARBALL} && \
+RUN curl -fsSLo ${TARBALL} ${APACHE_MIRROR_URL}/dist/kafka/${KAFKA_VERSION}/${TARBALL} && \
     ( echo "${KAFKA_SHA512SUM}  ${TARBALL}" > ${CHECKSUMS} ) && \
     sha512sum -c ${CHECKSUMS} && \
     tar xf ${TARBALL} -C /home/jenkins/opt && \