Add anchor to test drive
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ Docker Compose is a powerful tool that enables you to launch multiple docker ima
kafka_1 | [2016-07-25 03:26:06,007] INFO [Kafka Server 1], started (kafka.server.KafkaServer)
-4. Follow step 4 in "Running Confluent Platform in Docker" guide above to test the broker.
+4. Test the broker by :ref:`following these instructions from Docker Client <test_drive>`.
-The confluentinc/cp-docker-images github repository has several other interesting examples of docker-compose.yml files that you can use.
+The confluentinc/cp-docker-images GitHub repository has several other interesting examples of docker-compose.yml files that you can use.
.. _quickstart_engine:
@@ -203,6 +203,8 @@ Start Kafka.
[2016-07-15 23:31:00,350] INFO [Controller-1-to-broker-1-send-thread], Starting (kafka.controller.RequestSendThread)
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+.. _test_drive:
+
Now you can take this very basic deployment for a test drive. You'll verify that the broker is functioning normally by creating a topic and producing data to it. You'll use the client tools directly from another Docker container.
First, you'll create a topic. You'll name it ``foo`` and keep things simple by just giving it one partition and only one replica. Production environments with more broker nodes would obviously use higher values for both partitions and replicas for scalability and resiliency.
