diff --git a/docker/README.rst b/docker/README.rst
--- a/docker/README.rst
+++ b/docker/README.rst
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    docker_amqp_1                                    docker-entrypoint.sh rabbi ...   Up      15671/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5018->15672/tcp, 25672/tcp, 4369/tcp, 5671/tcp, 5672/tcp
    docker_flower_1                                  flower --broker=amqp://gue ...   Up      0.0.0.0:5555->5555/tcp
-   docker_kafka_1                                   start-kafka.sh                   Up      0.0.0.0:9092->9092/tcp
+   docker_kafka_1                                   start-kafka.sh                   Up      0.0.0.0:5092->5092/tcp
    docker_swh-deposit-db_1                          docker-entrypoint.sh postgres    Up      5432/tcp
    docker_swh-deposit_1                             /entrypoint.sh                   Up      0.0.0.0:5006->5006/tcp
    [...]
@@ -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:
+      - 127.0.0.1:5092
+
+  ~/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
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   kafka:
     image: wurstmeister/kafka
     ports:
-      - "9092:9092"
+      - "5092:5092"
     env_file: ./env/kafka.env
     environment:
       KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
         swh.journal.objects.skipped_content:16:1,
         swh.journal.objects.snapshot:16:1,
         swh.journal.indexed.origin_intrinsic_metadata:16:1
+      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://kafka:9092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://127.0.0.1:5092
+      KAFKA_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://:9092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://:5092
+      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT
+      KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: PLAINTEXT
     depends_on:
       - zookeeper
     healthcheck: