// UserStory: As an evaluator, I want to quickly start the Kafka, Debezium, and MySQL services so that I can register the MySQL connector with a sample database.
:context: debezium
[id="starting-services"]
= Starting the services
Using {prodname} requires three separate services:
http://zookeeper.apache.org[ZooKeeper], Kafka, and the {prodname} connector service.
In this tutorial,
you will set up a single instance of each service using http://docker.com[Docker] and https://hub.docker.com/u/debezium/[the {prodname} Docker images].
To start the services needed for this tutorial, you must: