I need to upgrade some kafka broker servers. So I need to seamlessly migrate traffic from the old brokers to the new ones, without losing data, and without stopping producers. I can temporarily stop consumers, etc.
Is there a strategy for this? Also, because of the way we are embedding kafka in our framework, our brokerId's are auto-generated (based on hostname, etc.), so I can't simply copy over broker log files, etc., by transferring an old brokerId to a new host. Is there a way to change the view of the cluster from the producer's standpoint, without doing so from the consumers standpoint? That way, the producers can start writing to the new brokers, while the consumers drain all data from the old brokers before switching to the new brokers. I don't actually care about ordering of messages, since the consumers are publishing them to a store that will index them properly based on source timestamp, etc. We are using zk for both producers and consumers connections. This is using 0.7.2. I assume in 0.8 it will be easier, since with replication, you can phase in the new servers gradually, etc., no? Thanks, Jason
