Check the --replica-assignment parameter of the kafka-topics.sh.
It does what you need.
And there should also be similar configs in the api if you wanna do so by
coding.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 6:18 PM, tao xiao <xiaotao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> Is it possible to specify a leader broker for each topic partition when
> doing partition reassignment?
>
> For example I have following json. Is the first broker in the replicas list
> by default the leader of the partition e.g. broker 3 is the leader of topic
> test5 and broker 2 is the leader of topic test3. or does Kafka
> automatically pick the leader based on the leadership ratio
> if auto.leader.rebalance.enable is on
>
> {
> "version": 1,
> "partitions": [
> {
> "topic": "test5",
> "partition": 0,
> "replicas": [3, 1]
> },
> {
> "topic": "test3",
> "partition": 0,
> "replicas": [2,3]
> },
> {
> "topic": "test1",
> "partition": 0,
> "replicas": [1,2]
> }
> ]
> }
>
