No worries, glad to have the functionality! Thanks for your help.
Luke
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Gwen Shapira wrote:
> Yep. That tool is not our best documented :(
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Luke Steensen <
> luke.steen...@braintreepayments.com> wrote:
>
> > Is the preferred
Yep. That tool is not our best documented :(
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Luke Steensen <
luke.steen...@braintreepayments.com> wrote:
> Is the preferred leader the first replica in the list passed to the
> reassignment tool? I don't see it specifically called out in the json file
> format.
>
Is the preferred leader the first replica in the list passed to the
reassignment tool? I don't see it specifically called out in the json file
format.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Gwen Shapira wrote:
> Ah, got it!
>
> There's no easy way to transfer leadership on command, but you could use
Ah, got it!
There's no easy way to transfer leadership on command, but you could use
the reassignment tool to change the preferred leader (and nothing else) and
then trigger preferred leader election.
Gwen
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Luke Steensen <
luke.steen...@braintreepayments.com> wro
Hi Gwen,
1. I sent a message to this list a couple days ago with the subject
"Controlled shutdown not relinquishing leadership of all partitions"
describing the issue I saw. Sorry there's not a lot of detail on the
controlled shutdown part, but I've had trouble reproducing outside of our
specific
Hi,
1. If you had problems with controlled shutdown, we need to know. Maybe
open a thread to discuss?
2. Controlled shutdown is only used to reduce the downtime involved in
large number of leader elections. New leaders will get elected in any case.
3. Controlled (or uncontrolled shutdown) does not
Hello,
For #3, I assume this relies on controlled shutdown to transfer leadership
gracefully? Or is there some way to use partition reassignment to set the
preferred leader of each partition? I ask because we've run into some
problems relying on controlled shutdown and having a separate verifiable
Hi,
There was a Jira to add "remove broker" option to the
partition-reassignment tool. I think it died in a long discussion trying to
solve a harder problem...
To your work-around - it is an acceptable work-around.
Few improvements:
1. Manually edit the resulting assignment json to avoid unneces
Hi there,
Kafka's `kafka-reassign-partitions.sh` tool currently has no mechanism for
removing brokers. However, it does have the ability to generate partition
plans across arbitrary sets of brokers, by using `--generate`, passing all
the topics in the cluster into it, then passing the generated pl
