Hi Neha, Can you describe the migration tool you mention below, for copying data from 0.7 to 0.8? Is this something provided with 0.8? Or do apps need to write custom migration tools?
Thanks, Jason On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Broadly, the strategy stays the same, except that the 0.8 broker will not > be able to serve requests coming from a pre-0.8 client. > So, the upgrade path will be and we will document this in detail soon - > > 1. Start a 0.8 Kafka cluster overlaid on the 0.6/0.7 hardware or on > separate hardware if you can spare > 2. Start a migration tool to copy data from 0.7 to 0.8. Currently we don't > have migration tool support for 0.6 but it is very easy to add, so please > file a JIRA for this. > 3. Move consumers to the 0.8 cluster (since it has all the data that your > 0.6/0.7 cluster has) > 4. Once all consumers have moved, start moving producers over to the 0.8 > cluster > 5. Stop and decommission the 0.6/0.7 Kafka cluster. > > Thanks, > Neha > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Evan Chan <e...@ooyala.com> wrote: > > > Will it be possible to upgrade from 0.6 directly to 0.8, and what would > the > > migration strategy be like? I understand for 0.6 to 0.7, the strategy > was > > to first upgrade your consumers, then the broker, then the producers. > > > > -Evan > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > To answer your question, even if the team is working on 0.8, we > > understand > > > that it will take some time for 0.8 to be completely stable and for > users > > > to build some confidence in moving to 0.8 since it is backwards > > > incompatible. Keeping that in mind, we will try our best to patch the > 0.7 > > > branch for bugs and do point releases from there for a few months down > > the > > > line. > > > Feel free to file bugs and we can discuss how to handle a release for > > those > > > bug fixes. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Neha > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Our current plan to to get 0.8 out asap and only patch blocker issues > > in > > > > 0.7. If the issues that you found apply to 0.8, please feel free to > > open > > > a > > > > jira and/or attach a patch. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Jun > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Wouter de Bie <wou...@spotify.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > We're currently using Kafka 0.7 and here and there we're running > in a > > > few > > > > > bugs here and there. Since 0.8 is around the corner, it might not > > make > > > > too > > > > > much sense in sending the patches for 0.8 upstream, unless 0.7 will > > > live > > > > a > > > > > (long) life next to 0.8. What's your take on the future of the 0.7 > > > > branch? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Wouter de Bie > > > > > Team Lead Analytics and Data Infrastructure, Spotify > > > > > wou...@spotify.com > > > > > +46 72 018 0777 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > > *Evan Chan* > > Senior Software Engineer | > > e...@ooyala.com | (650) 996-4600 > > www.ooyala.com | blog <http://www.ooyala.com/blog> | > > @ooyala<http://www.twitter.com/ooyala> > > >
