For the sake of the discussion and for others reading this... In a live/production environment, I guess it is safe to say that if ZK is down for any period of time, the best bet is to also stop Kafka and restart it once ZK is back up?
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > If you merely rolling bounce a zookeeper cluster while keeping a quorum, > Kafka will recover automatically. > > Thanks, > Neha > On May 23, 2013 9:21 AM, "Marc Labbe" <mrla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the answer, I was looking for this information on my side as > > well. > > > > If, for some reason, the ZK cluster restarts completely, how should we > deal > > with Kafka? Should we restart it, stop it before the ZK restart or will > > Kafka recover automatically? > > > > This is mainly a question for a constantly changing development setup but > > this is the kind of things that can happen even in prod, whether we like > it > > or not :) > > > > thanks, > > marc > > > > > > On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > First launch the zookeeper cluster completely followed by the kafka > > > cluster. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Neha > > > On May 22, 2013 8:43 AM, "Yu, Libo" <libo...@citi.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I want to launch kafka on three machines. I can launch zookeepers > > > > on the three machines first. After that, start kafka server on each > > > > machine. Or for each machine, I start a zookeeper followed by the > > kafka. > > > > I believe the first way is the right way to go. But I want to confirm > > it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Libo > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
