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// assembly-kafka-bridge-quickstart.adoc

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= Deploying the Kafka Bridge locally

Deploy an instance of the Strimzi Kafka Bridge to the host.
Use the `application.properties` file provided with the installation archive to apply the default configuration settings.

.Procedure

. Open the `application.properties` file and check that the default  `HTTP related settings` are defined:
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[source,shell,subs=attributes+]
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http.enabled=true
http.host=0.0.0.0
http.port=8080
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This configures the Kafka Bridge to listen for requests on port 8080.

. Run the Kafka Bridge script using the configuration properties as a parameter:
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[source,shell,subs=attributes+]
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./bin/kafka_bridge_run.sh --config-file=<path>/application.properties
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.What to do next

* xref:proc-producing-messages-from-bridge-topics-partitions-{context}[Produce messages to topics and partitions].
