Thanks Mickael, this makes sense to me! I've been wanting something like this in order to decommission a broker without new partitions getting accidentally assigned to it.
Ryanne On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 5:56 AM Mickael Maison <mickael.mai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to start a new discussion on KIP-660. I originally wrote this > KIP in 2020 and the initial discussion > (https://lists.apache.org/thread/xn7xyb74nyt281brto4x28r9rzxm4lp9) > raised some concerns especially around KRaft (which did not exist at > that time) and scalability. > > Since then, we got a new KRaft controller so I've been able to revisit > this KIP. I kept the KIP number as it's essentially the same idea, but > the proposal is significantly different: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-660%3A+Pluggable+ReplicaPlacer > > Please take a look and let me know if you have any feedback. > > Thanks, > Mickael >