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Peter Horvath updated KAFKA-6851:
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Issue Type: Improvement (was: New Feature)
> Kafka CLI commands should support specifying the servers in environment
> variables
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> Key: KAFKA-6851
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6851
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: clients
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.0.1
> Environment: ALL
> Reporter: Peter Horvath
> Priority: Major
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> Currently, different Kafka CLI commands require specifying different servers
> as argument (--broker-list, --bootstrap-server and --zookeeper).
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> This is kind of tedious as different CLI commands require specifying
> different servers, which is especially painful if the host names are *long*,
> and *only slightly different* (e.g. naming scheme for AWS:
> ec2-12-34-56-2.region-x.compute.amazonaws.com).
>
> I know I could simply export shell variables for each type of endpoint and
> refer that in the command, but that still only eases the pain:
> export
> KAFKA_ZK=[ec2-12-34-56-2.region-x.compute.amazonaws.com|http://ec2-12-34-56-2.region-x.compute.amazonaws.com/]
> bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper ${KAFKA_ZK}
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> According to [some conversation on the Kafka mailing
> list|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201804.mbox/%3cca+usspag21mwufr146_hlvdyftuzjm4zfn1c5tnfjugjxag...@mail.gmail.com%3E]
> (started by me), people usually resort to some kind of non-standardised
> work-arounds (see replies to thread _Using Kafka CLI without specifying the
> URLs every single time?_)
>
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> When dealing with Kafka client CLI, it would be huge relief / productivity
> boost if the CLI could pick up the servers from the user's environment
> variables.
> For example, instead of using --broker-list, --bootstrap-server or
> --zookeeper, the Kafka client commands could check if there is an environment
> variable and use that in case the argument is missing. (allowing the
> environment-defined server to still be overridden with an *explicit*
> argument).
>
> I propose introducing some kind of specific environment variables that would
> allow the user to omit the explicit specification of the --broker-list,
> --bootstrap-server and --zookeeper argument every single time a CLI command
> is called. This would make using Kafka CLI much easier.
>
> ||CLI argument||Proposed environment variable name||
> |--broker-list|KAFKA_CLIENT_BROKER_LIST|
> |--bootstrap-server|KAFKA_CLIENT_BOOTSTRAP_SERVER|
> |--zookeeper|KAFKA_CLIENT_ZOOKEEPER|
> It should be possible to implement this solely at the wrapper shell script
> level, with some checks being done that test if the variable is defined or
> not.
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