This commit consists of:
1) Provide a kafka client to publish events to kafka brokers
2) Provide zookeeper and kafka docker containers for local testing,
   will not be present in production
3) Sends a regular heartbeat to the kafka broker from voltha to
   exercise all the components
4) Provides a basic kafka consumeri (requires kafka-python to be
   installed)  to read the messages off the local kafka broker -
   this time it is only heartbeat messages
diff --git a/kafka/Dockerfile b/kafka/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f297d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kafka/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+FROM anapsix/alpine-java
+
+MAINTAINER Wurstmeister
+
+RUN apk add --update unzip wget curl docker jq coreutils
+
+ENV KAFKA_VERSION="0.10.0.1" SCALA_VERSION="2.11"
+ADD download-kafka.sh /tmp/download-kafka.sh
+RUN /tmp/download-kafka.sh && tar xfz /tmp/kafka_${SCALA_VERSION}-${KAFKA_VERSION}.tgz -C /opt && rm /tmp/kafka_${SCALA_VERSION}-${KAFKA_VERSION}.tgz
+
+VOLUME ["/kafka"]
+
+ENV KAFKA_HOME /opt/kafka_${SCALA_VERSION}-${KAFKA_VERSION}
+ADD start-kafka.sh /usr/bin/start-kafka.sh
+ADD broker-list.sh /usr/bin/broker-list.sh
+ADD create-topics.sh /usr/bin/create-topics.sh
+
+# Use "exec" form so that it runs as PID 1 (useful for graceful shutdown)
+CMD ["start-kafka.sh"]