Thanks a lot Chris, you saved us a lot of time with this. -Haithem On 2 Aug 2013, at 16:58, Chris Hogue <csho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of notes on name-spacing since there are a couple of gotchas when > trying to configure it: > > It's specified via the zookeeper.connect property described here: > > http://kafka.apache.org/08/configuration.html > > If you have multiple servers in the zk cluster rather than a standalone > node the path is only specified once at the end, not on each node. So it > would look something like: > > zookeeper.connect=myzk1.example.org:2181,myzk2.example.org:2181, > myzk3.example.org:2181/foo/bar > > Also, the /foo/bar path must exist in the zk cluster before starting the > brokers or they will fail on startup. There is an error message but it's > not totally clear what the issue is. You can create the path via the > zookeeper shell if nothing else. > > Hope that helps. > > -Chris > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Kafka producers identify brokers registered in ZK through a getMetadata >> request to one of the brokers, not through ZK directly. >> >> Two Kafka clusters can share the same ZK cluster, as long as they use >> different ZK namespace. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jun >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Haithem Jarraya <a-hjarr...@expedia.com >>> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am new to Kafka, and I am a bit confused for this particular use case. >>> We are running a global Zookeeper cluster and I was wondering how I can >>> have my Kafka producer discover Kafka hostnames? >>> I saw that in the server.properties I can specify host.name and at that >>> point I will be able to see the list of hostnames in zookeeper >>> /brokers/ids/ so I can have my producer connect to zookeeper and resolve >>> Kafka hostnames. >>> Are there any other solutions? >>> Also, Can we have two separate Kafka Clusters using the same Zookeeper >>> cluster? Just to make sure that we do not collide with other teams. I >> guess >>> not given that the zookeeper path is hard coded. Am I wrong? >>> >>> Many Thanks, >>> >>> Haithem >>
