If we have a kafka producer connecting to a Kafka cluster behind a hardware Load Balancer (VIP), will producer be able to send a message to a right partition ? Can one of the brokers in a cluster do a broker discovery to forward the message to ? I guess my question is whether it makes sense to use a hardware load balancer at all.
Typical deployment model at our company is to have a pool of machines and LB decides which machine in a pool would receive a request. Looking to hear from kafka experts what is the best way of setting up a cluster given that the cluster has be behind a VIP. Thanks
