Hello Jakub, nice to also see you on this list :-)
Thank you for your answer. Kind Regards, Andreas On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Jakub Scholz <ja...@scholz.cz> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > What you are describing is basically one central cluster (managed by the > central org.) and a set of "satelite" clusters (which are managed by > different org. each). These will never form a single cluster and you cannot > use features such as replication to mirror the messages. > > But you might be able to use a tool such as MirrorMaker ( > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#basic_ops_mirror_maker / > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27846330) > to link the "satelite" clusters with the main central cluster and forward > the messages. How good will such solution be probably depends on your use > cases and topic configuration. For example if you just publish to the > satelite clusters and want to get these data mirrored to the central > cluster it should work fine. The same if you have topic from which you just > read. But if you try to do a full synchronization (i.e. all satelites > publishing to the same topic but also consuming from it) it might be a bit > more tricky I guess. > > Regards > Jakub > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:49 PM, andi welchlin <andi.welch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I am new to Apache Kafka but used Apache Qpid, before. > > > > I have a question regarding the broker setup: > > > > Is it possible to run several brokers in a Kafka cluster while they are > not > > all running on the same zookeeper? > > > > I want to reach the following target: > > > > Several organizations are running one Kafka broker each. These brokers > are > > connected to the Kafka brokers in the cloud. The brokers in the cloud are > > running on one zookeeper and are maintained by one organization. But all > > the other connected organizations run their own broker in their own > > environment. > > > > With QPID brokers this would be possible by defining routes between these > > brokers. > > > > Can someone tell me if this is possible with Apache Kafka? > > > > Kind Regards, > > Andreas > > >
