diff --git a/docker/README.rst b/docker/README.rst
--- a/docker/README.rst
+++ b/docker/README.rst
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 Several services have their listening ports exposed on the host:
 
 -  amqp: 5072
--  kafka: 5092
+-  kafka: 29092
 -  nginx: 5080
 
 And for SWH services:
@@ -213,6 +213,22 @@
    loader@61704103668c: OK
    [...]
 
+
+To consume ``kafka`` topics from the host, for example to run the `swh
+dataset graph export` command, a configuration file could be::
+
+  ~/swh-environment/docker$ cat dataset_config.yml
+  journal:
+    brokers:
+      - 127.0.0.1:29092
+
+  ~/swh-environment/docker$ swh dataset -C dataset_config.yml graph export output
+  Exporting release:
+  - Partition offsets: 100%|███████████████████████████████| 16/16 [00:00<00:00, 1863.62it/s]
+  - Export (release): 100%|████████████████| 3650/3650 [00:08<00:00, 437.89it/s, workers=1/1]
+  [...]
+
+
 .. _docker-manage-tasks:
 
 Managing tasks
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.yml b/docker/docker-compose.yml
--- a/docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -17,20 +17,24 @@
   kafka:
     image: wurstmeister/kafka
     ports:
-      - "9092:9092"
+      - "29092:29092"
     env_file: ./env/kafka.env
     environment:
       KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
-      KAFKA_CREATE_TOPICS: swh.journal.objects.content:16:1,
-        swh.journal.objects.directory:16:1,
-        swh.journal.objects.origin:16:1,
-        swh.journal.objects.origin_visit:16:1,
-        swh.journal.objects.origin_visit_status:16:1,
-        swh.journal.objects.revision:16:1,
-        swh.journal.objects.release:16:1,
-        swh.journal.objects.skipped_content:16:1,
-        swh.journal.objects.snapshot:16:1,
-        swh.journal.indexed.origin_intrinsic_metadata:16:1
+      KAFKA_CREATE_TOPICS: swh.journal.objects.content:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.objects.directory:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.objects.origin:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.objects.origin_visit:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.objects.origin_visit_status:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.objects.revision:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.objects.release:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.objects.skipped_content:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.objects.snapshot:16:1:compact,
+        swh.journal.indexed.origin_intrinsic_metadata:16:1:compact
+      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://kafka:9092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://127.0.0.1:29092
+      KAFKA_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://:9092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://:29092
+      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT
+      KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
     depends_on:
       - zookeeper
     healthcheck: