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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-1778: -------------------------------- [~anigam], for the two use cases that you mentioned, it seems that a simpler approach is what Joe said. Just configure a couple of brokers to be eligible for becoming the controller. Then, only those brokers will try to become the controller. I am not sure what the use case is to have an admin command to force the controller to move. > Create new re-elect controller admin function > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1778 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1778 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Joe Stein > Assignee: Abhishek Nigam > Fix For: 0.8.3 > > > kafka --controller --elect -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)