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Connect Kafka on WSL2 with PyCharm on Windows

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WSL2 with Kafka and PyCharm - To solve broker not found error on WSL2 Kafka and PyCharm client on Windows *** This post is technical and about a problem I faced with Kafka on WSL2 and PyCharm*** This guide of for people who are facing difficulty with using Kafka on WSL2  and PyCharm for python clients Hello and welcome to this small blog on Kafka with WSL2 and PyCharm.  The intention of this blog is to highlight a basic understanding about a WSL2 networking feature and how it affects editors like PyCharm and JetBrains from accessing servers running on wsl2. If you have already come across this issue and have found a solution different that the one given here, please feel free to correct me. Okay, so many of us Linux fellas who are obliged to work on Windows would definitely love the new WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) feature introduced by Microsoft for Windows 10. This feature literally runs a Linux machine on our windows without the overhead of a virtual machine like VirtualBox or