diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1be335e3..70117c7e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ ci-test-unit:
 ci-test-all:
 	pytest -s -v --log-format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s" --log-level DEBUG --cov aiokafka --cov-report xml  --color=yes --docker-image $(DOCKER_IMAGE) $(FLAGS) tests
 
+.PHONY: manual-test
+manual-test:
+	docker compose up --build --exit-code-from aiokafka --attach aiokafka
+
 coverage.xml: .coverage
 	coverage xml
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7578bb2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# Network and IPs are hard coded otherwise a broker might be confused on restarting from a different IP
+
+services:
+  zookeeper:
+    build:
+      context: ./docker/kafka
+    command: "zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties"
+    environment:
+      KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS: "-Xmx64M -Xms32M"
+    networks:
+      aiokafka-test-network:
+        ipv4_address: 172.16.23.10
+
+  kafka1:
+    build:
+      context: ./docker/kafka
+    command: "start-broker.sh"
+    environment:
+      BROKER_ID: "1"
+      ZOOKEEPER: "zookeeper:2181"
+      KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS: "-Xmx256M -Xms128M"
+    networks:
+      aiokafka-test-network:
+        ipv4_address: 172.16.23.11
+    stop_grace_period: 30s
+    healthcheck:
+      test: [ "CMD-SHELL", "/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-broker-api-versions.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 || exit 1" ]
+      retries: 30
+      interval: 1s
+    depends_on:
+      - zookeeper
+
+  kafka2:
+    extends:
+      service: kafka1
+    environment:
+      BROKER_ID: "2"
+    networks:
+      aiokafka-test-network:
+        ipv4_address: 172.16.23.12
+
+  kafka3:
+    extends:
+      service: kafka1
+    environment:
+      BROKER_ID: "3"
+    networks:
+      aiokafka-test-network:
+        ipv4_address: 172.16.23.13
+
+
+  aiokafka:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: docker/aiokafka/Dockerfile
+    command: [ "python", "-u", "-m", "tests.manual.topic_management" ]
+    environment:
+      BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS: "kafka3:9092,kafka2:9092,kafka1:9092"
+    networks:
+      aiokafka-test-network:
+        ipv4_address: 172.16.23.100
+    depends_on:
+      kafka1:
+        condition: service_healthy
+      kafka2:
+        condition: service_healthy
+      kafka3:
+        condition: service_healthy
+
+networks:
+  aiokafka-test-network:
+    ipam:
+      driver: default
+      config:
+        - subnet: 172.16.23.0/24
+          ip_range: 172.28.23.0/24
diff --git a/docker/aiokafka/Dockerfile b/docker/aiokafka/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e7071d2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/aiokafka/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+FROM python:3.12
+
+WORKDIR /opt/project
+
+COPY setup.py pyproject.toml requirements-* /opt/project/
+
+RUN pip install -r requirements-ci.txt
+
+COPY aiokafka /opt/project/aiokafka
+COPY tests /opt/project/tests
diff --git a/docker/kafka/Dockerfile b/docker/kafka/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..57db6205
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/kafka/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+FROM ubuntu:22.04
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends default-jre wget && \
+  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+ENV PATH="/opt/kafka/bin:${PATH}"
+WORKDIR /opt/kafka
+
+COPY start-broker.sh /opt/kafka/bin/
+
+ARG SCALA_VERSION=2.13
+ARG KAFKA_VERSION=2.8.1
+
+RUN wget -q -O kafka.tgz "https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/${KAFKA_VERSION}/kafka_${SCALA_VERSION}-${KAFKA_VERSION}.tgz" \
+  && tar xfvz kafka.tgz --strip 1 \
+  && rm -rf kafka.tgz site-docs
diff --git a/docker/kafka/start-broker.sh b/docker/kafka/start-broker.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..4636c09e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/kafka/start-broker.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+exec kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties \
+  --override "broker.id=${BROKER_ID:-0}" \
+  --override "zookeeper.connect=${ZOOKEEPER}" \
+  --override "listeners=PLAINTEXT://:9092" \
+  --override "advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://$(hostname -i):9092" \
+  --override "listener.security.protocol.map=PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT" \
+  --override "offsets.topic.replication.factor=${OFFSETS_REPLICATIONS:-1}"
diff --git a/tests/manual/__init__.py b/tests/manual/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/manual/topic_management.py b/tests/manual/topic_management.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3a13351d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manual/topic_management.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import asyncio
+import os
+
+from aiokafka.admin import AIOKafkaAdminClient, NewTopic
+
+
+async def main() -> None:
+    client = AIOKafkaAdminClient(bootstrap_servers=os.environ["BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS"])
+    await client.start()
+    try:
+        for i in range(20):
+            topic = f"test-{i}"
+            print("Creating topic:", topic)
+            await client.create_topics(
+                [NewTopic(name=topic, num_partitions=3, replication_factor=2)]
+            )
+            await asyncio.sleep(5)
+            print("Deleting topic:", topic)
+            await client.delete_topics([topic])
+            await asyncio.sleep(5)
+    finally:
+        await client.close()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # Start the asyncio loop by running the main function
+    asyncio.run(main())