diff --git a/.ci/docker-compose-file/docker-compose-kafka.yaml b/.ci/docker-compose-file/docker-compose-kafka.yaml
index 3bb7748d5..d610316bd 100644
--- a/.ci/docker-compose-file/docker-compose-kafka.yaml
+++ b/.ci/docker-compose-file/docker-compose-kafka.yaml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ services:
       KAFKA_SASL_KERBEROS_SERVICE_NAME: kafka
       KAFKA_SASL_MECHANISM_INTER_BROKER_PROTOCOL: PLAIN
       KAFKA_JMX_OPTS: "-Djava.security.auth.login.config=/etc/kafka/jaas.conf"
-      KAFKA_ALLOW_EVERYONE_IF_NO_ACL_FOUND: true
+      KAFKA_ALLOW_EVERYONE_IF_NO_ACL_FOUND: "true"
       KAFKA_CREATE_TOPICS: test-topic-one-partition:1:1,test-topic-two-partitions:2:1,test-topic-three-partitions:3:1,
       KAFKA_AUTHORIZER_CLASS_NAME: kafka.security.auth.SimpleAclAuthorizer
       KAFKA_SSL_TRUSTSTORE_LOCATION: /var/lib/secret/kafka.truststore.jks