You can use ELB address as metadata broker list. But you still need to allow direct traffic from clients to a brokers because clients need to talk to a specific broker who has the interested partition.
Jiangjie (Becket) Qin On 5/2/15, 11:10 AM, "Chandrashekhar Kotekar" <shekhar.kote...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I am new to Apache Kafka. I have played with it on my laptop. > >I want to use Kafka in AWS. Currently we have tomcat web servers based >REST >API. We want to replace REST API with Apache Kafka, web servers are behind >ELB. > >I would like to know if we can keep Kafka brokers behind ELB? Will it >work? > >Regards, >Chandrash3khar Kotekar >Mobile - +91 8600011455
