One possible issue: the brokers need to talk directly to each other,
broker-to-broker, right? And they will try to talk to each other via the
VIP endpoints (vip1a, vip2a)?
The brokers communicate with each other and they use the
advertised.host.name for the same. So you will need to ensure that is
I'm looking for advice on running Kafka 0.8 behind VIPs. The goal is to
support SSL traffic, with encryption and decryption being performed by
back-to-back VIPs at the client and in front of the broker. That is:
Kafka client
--> vip1a.myco.com:8080 (SSL encrypt) --- WAN ---> VIP 1b (SSL decryp