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Luke Chen commented on KAFKA-18964: ----------------------------------- Yes, this needs a KIP, and need some discussion about what are the good solutions for it. Thanks [~frankvicky] . > Allow to set weights for controller nodes for leader election > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-18964 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-18964 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Luke Chen > Assignee: TengYao Chi > Priority: Major > > In the stretch cluster environment, the nodes are located in different data > center for disaster recovery. So the backup cluster controller nodes should > be served as the follower. Only when the disaster happened, the controller > nodes in backup cluster need to be elected as leader. In our current design, > the candidate node is randomly chosen. We can consider to apply the "weight" > to the controller nodes to achieve the situation mentioned above. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)