Honza did you try to set zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms.to 0 ?
Apache Kafka<https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#configuration> [http://apache-kafka.org/images/apache-kafka.png]<https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#configuration> Apache Kafka<https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#configuration> Apache Kafka: A Distributed Streaming Platform. kafka.apache.org ~martin~ ________________________________ From: j...@zidek.eu <jan.zi...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 4:55 AM To: users@kafka.apache.org <users@kafka.apache.org> Subject: How to configure Spring Boot Kafka client so it does not try to connect Could anyone answer my question here please? https://stackoverflow.com/q/70182077/2886891 Thanks a lot, Honza