You can force the controller to move, but you can’t control where it goes. To force the controller to move to another broker, delete the “/controller” znode in Zookeeper for the cluster. This will cause the current controller to resign and a new one to be elected, but it’s random as to what broker that will be.
A better question here is why do you want to move the controller? -Todd On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Jun MA <mj.saber1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are running kafka 0.9.0.1 and I’m looking for a elegant way to failover > controller to other brokers. Right now I have to restart the broker to > failover it to other brokers. Is there a way to failover controller to a > specific broker? Is there a way to failover it without restart the broker? > > Thanks, > Jun -- *Todd Palino* Senior Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Data Infrastructure Streaming linkedin.com/in/toddpalino
