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application.yml Configuration
Core Spring Kafka properties. Spring Boot passes them to the Kafka clients and auto-configures KafkaTemplate and the listener containers from them. Kafka's own client settings go under properties.
spring:
kafka:
bootstrap-servers: localhost:9092
producer:
key-serializer: org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer
# Spring Kafka 4.x name; earlier versions call it JsonSerializer
value-serializer: org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JacksonJsonSerializer
acks: all # the Kafka 4.2 default, written out for clarity
properties:
enable.idempotence: true # the default
max.in.flight.requests.per.connection: 5 # the default; idempotence needs <= 5
retries: 2147483647 # the default, bounded by delivery.timeout.ms (120000 by default)
consumer:
group-id: my-service
auto-offset-reset: earliest
key-deserializer: org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer
value-deserializer: org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JacksonJsonDeserializer
properties:
spring.json.trusted.packages: "com.example.*" # packages the JSON deserializer may instantiate
listener:
ack-mode: BATCH # the container default
concurrency: 3Sources
- Apache Kafka support (Spring Boot) (opens in a new tab)
- Common application properties (Spring Boot) (opens in a new tab)
- Producer configs (Kafka 4.2 documentation) (opens in a new tab)
- Consumer configs (Kafka 4.2 documentation) (opens in a new tab)
- @KafkaListener annotation (Spring for Apache Kafka) (opens in a new tab)
- Listener container properties (Spring for Apache Kafka) (opens in a new tab)
- Change history (Spring for Apache Kafka) (opens in a new tab)
- Serialization, deserialization and message conversion (Spring for Apache Kafka) (opens in a new tab)
Checked against Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.1, Spring Boot 4.1.1 and Kafka 4.2 documentation on 11 October 2026. Draft: not yet reviewed by a Kafka specialist, and releases move on, so confirm against the current documentation before you act on it.