I'm afraid Kafka will not offer any help with this - at least not as far as I know. You have to implement it on your own.
Jakub On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Sivaprakash <sivaprakashshanmu...@gmail.com > wrote: > In this case how authentication keys can be maintained? If I want to change > key/password for my cluster how can I change it in my clients (producers) > because they might be sitting in my remote place (sensors/mobile apps)? > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Jakub Scholz <ja...@scholz.cz> wrote: > > > Yes, the clients do not connect to Zookeeper anymore. You can create a > > loadbalancer which will point to all your Kafka brokers and use the > address > > of such loadbalancer as the "bootstrap server" in your clients. The > clients > > will use the loadbalancer and connect to one of the Kafka brokers and get > > metadata from this broker. And with these metadata they will connect to > the > > different leaders as needed. > > > > Jakub > > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Sivaprakash < > > sivaprakashshanmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just trying to understand how Zookeeper works with Kafka in recent > > > versions. Document says Zookeeper need not be connected by Producer and > > > Subscriber. > > > > > > How to assign a static IP to the whole cluster (anything like load > > > balancer) ? I want my producers to use only one IP or domain to publish > > > data irrespective of Kafka Broker Leader. > > > > > > > > > -- > - Prakash. >