see the link http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#basic_ops_cluster_expansion
After you add the new broker , you have to run the partition assignment tool to re assign partitions regards On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Dillian Murphey <crackshotm...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's out there in terms of auto scaling kafka brokers? > > What is being done? Does anyone run an elastic kafka broker cluster? > > Along these lines, what is the procedure to replace a broker with a new > broker? This might be ensuring topics are replicated so I can afford > downtime. But let's say I kill a broker and spin up an entirely new one... > How do I distribute topics to this new broker?? > > Thanks for any sources of information > -- http://khangaonkar.blogspot.com/