diff --git a/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/pom.xml b/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/pom.xml
index 0f7e820ce8c28..720455817f9e3 100644
--- a/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/pom.xml
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@
             <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
             <artifactId>quarkus-junit4-mock</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-devservices-common</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/DevServicesKafkaProcessor.java b/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/DevServicesKafkaProcessor.java
index 69c2d2afc0316..c5732eed2feb8 100644
--- a/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/DevServicesKafkaProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/DevServicesKafkaProcessor.java
@@ -2,13 +2,11 @@
 
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.Config;
 import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.ConfigProvider;
 import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
-import org.testcontainers.DockerClientFactory;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.GenericContainer;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.Network;
 import org.testcontainers.containers.wait.strategy.Wait;
@@ -16,8 +14,6 @@
 import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
 
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.command.InspectContainerResponse;
-import com.github.dockerjava.api.model.Container;
-import com.github.dockerjava.api.model.ContainerPort;
 
 import io.quarkus.bootstrap.classloading.QuarkusClassLoader;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.IsDockerWorking;
@@ -28,6 +24,7 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.LaunchModeBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.RunTimeConfigurationDefaultBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.ServiceStartBuildItem;
+import io.quarkus.devservices.common.ContainerLocator;
 import io.quarkus.runtime.LaunchMode;
 import io.quarkus.runtime.configuration.ConfigUtils;
 
@@ -46,6 +43,8 @@ public class DevServicesKafkaProcessor {
      */
     private static final String DEV_SERVICE_LABEL = "quarkus-dev-service-kafka";
 
+    private static final ContainerLocator kafkaContainerLocator = new ContainerLocator(DEV_SERVICE_LABEL, KAFKA_PORT);
+
     static volatile Closeable closeable;
     static volatile KafkaDevServiceCfg cfg;
     static volatile boolean first = true;
@@ -138,30 +137,8 @@ private void shutdownBroker() {
         }
     }
 
-    private static Container lookup(String expectedLabelValue) {
-        List<Container> containers = DockerClientFactory.lazyClient().listContainersCmd().exec();
-        for (Container container : containers) {
-            String s = container.getLabels().get(DEV_SERVICE_LABEL);
-            if (expectedLabelValue.equalsIgnoreCase(s)) {
-                return container;
-            }
-        }
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    private static ContainerPort getMappedPort(Container container, int port) {
-        for (ContainerPort p : container.getPorts()) {
-            Integer mapped = p.getPrivatePort();
-            Integer publicPort = p.getPublicPort();
-            if (mapped != null && mapped == port && publicPort != null) {
-                return p;
-            }
-        }
-        return null;
-    }
-
     private KafkaBroker startKafka(KafkaDevServiceCfg config,
-            LaunchModeBuildItem launchMode) {
+                                   LaunchModeBuildItem launchMode) {
         if (!config.devServicesEnabled) {
             // explicitly disabled
             log.debug("Not starting dev services for Kafka, as it has been disabled in the config.");
@@ -188,18 +165,8 @@ private KafkaBroker startKafka(KafkaDevServiceCfg config,
 
         if (config.shared && launchMode.getLaunchMode() == LaunchMode.DEVELOPMENT) {
             // Detect if there is a broker already started using container labels.
-            Container container = lookup(config.serviceName);
-            if (container != null) {
-                ContainerPort port = getMappedPort(container, KAFKA_PORT);
-                if (port != null) {
-                    String url = port.getIp() + ":" + port.getPublicPort();
-                    log.infof("Dev Services for Kafka container found: %s (%s). "
-                            + "Connecting to: %s.",
-                            container.getId(),
-                            container.getImage(), url);
-                    return new KafkaBroker(url, null);
-                }
-            }
+            final String url = kafkaContainerLocator.locateContainer(config.serviceName);
+            return new KafkaBroker(url, null);
         }
 
         // Starting the broker