Banias, This is a property for producers / consumers. Your producers / consumers may not necessarily (and probably should not) have access to te zookeeper cluster your kafka cluster uses. That’s why you give it a list kafka nodes with bootstrap.servers.
– Best regards, Radek Gruchalski ra...@gruchalski.com On November 14, 2016 at 8:19:32 PM, Banias H (banias4sp...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi Kafka experts, In my Java code to produce messages to Kafka, I always have to specify the list of "bootstrap.servers" in initialization since version 0.9. I always wonder if there is anyway the "bootstrap.servers" is available in zookeeper (w/o manually storing the list there)? Thanks. -B