Thanks for the clarifications, Robin. On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 2:51 PM Robin Moffatt <ro...@confluent.io.invalid> wrote:
> 1. Kafka Connect standalone workers have their connectors configured based > on properties file(s) passed on the command line at startup. You cannot use > REST to add or remove them > 2. Correct, Standalone workers are isolated instances that cannot share > load with other workers > 3. Correct, Distributed workers in a cluster will distributed connector > tasks across the available workers and rebalance on the loss of a worker > 4. Correct, in Distributed mode you have to use the REST interface (see > https://rmoff.dev/kafka-connect-rest-api), you cannot use properties file > to configure connectors. n.b. You still have a properties file to configure > the worker itself. > > > -- > > Robin Moffatt | Senior Developer Advocate | ro...@confluent.io | @rmoff > > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 02:02, Himanshu Shukla <himanshushukla...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am having these below understanding regarding Kafka connect. > > > > 1. Kafka Connect Standalone has the provision of either running the job > > from the command line or we can use the REST interface also to > > add/update/delete a connector job. > > > > 2. Standalone mode won't be running like a clustered environment like it > > won't be sharing the load if more than one instance is running. Each > > Instance will be responsible for it's own configured connector job and > load > > sharing won't happen. > > > > 3. Distributed mode will share the load among the instances and will > > provide fault tolerance, dynamic scaling, etc. > > > > 4. Distribute mode only provides the connector job configuration through > > the REST interface. There is no other option like reading the connector > job > > config from the property file or reading it from JDBC etc. > > > > Please confirm, if the above understanding is correct. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Himanshu Shukla > > > -- Regards, Himanshu Shukla
