I have to perform frequent re- deployments, and i run into the offset problem: Unable to Receive Message:kafka server: The requested offset is outside the range of offsets maintained by the server for the given topic/partition I tried to re-create topics and reset topic metadata in zookeeper from scripts: set /msgq/ConsumerService/mytopic/offsetinfo/0 0 but it doesn't seem to be repeatable, e.g. it might work after several ties, or not I wonder if there's some solution to this problem, this offset tracking problems render the whole kafka/zookeeper system useless... Thanks,