Phil, In 0.8, the broker always depends on ZK. So, this is no longer optional. You can still run a single node broker with replication factor set to 1 though.
Actually, in 0.7, MirrorMaker depends on ZK to consume data in a broker. So, how did you get the data from the local broker out without ZK? Thanks, Jun On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Hargett, Phil < phil.harg...@mirror-image.com> wrote: > While the replication features in 0.8 are very desirable for us, one > aspect of 0.7 that was also appealing was that in specific scenarios a > single broker instance could run by itself without an accompanying > Zookeeper. > > This provided a lightweight "entry point" for log flows by running lots of > single-instance Kafka brokers for local durability, then running other code > (like MirrorMaker) to propagate local data from those single-instance > brokers to shared broker clusters for further processing by other > applications. > > Is this scenario no longer achievable with 0.8? Will it be on the roadmap > again?
