On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Philip O'Toole <phi...@loggly.com> wrote:
> > For > > producers, also, you can't really use a load-balancer to connect to > brokers > > (you can use zk, or you can use a broker list, in 0.7.2, and in 0.8, you > > can use an LB for the initial meta data connection, but then you still > have > > to have direct connections to each broker from each producer). > > Huh? Sure you can, if the Producers are simple. Producers just need a > destination IP address and port. They have no way of knowing if that > IP is an LB or real Kafka broker. Set the partition to -1 (i.e. > random) in all messages destined for Kafka, and it all just works. > Granted, this is a simple type of 0.72 deployment. Perhaps it doesn't > work for more complex Producers or 0.8 deployments -- I am not yet > that familiar with 0.8. Interesting, so in this case, do you just provide the vip in the "broker.list" property for the producer? That might just work for my needs. Jason
