<< My goal is to be able to hide the underlying hosts from the producer and
be able to use a virtual endpoint (like the vip).
That is a typical approach and good to be done if you can for the reasons
you brought up. The first call of a producer is to "bootstrap" itself with
the list of kafka broke
Hello Kafka Users
I am new to Kafka and am evaluating it for using it for our high throughput
messaging needs.
I tested my producers using two different approaches.
(a) metadata.broker.list=kafka1:9092,kafka2:9092,kafka3:9092
And
(b) metadata.broker.list=vip:9092
Where vip is an ELB (elastic loa