Hmm, that shift the problem just to another resource. If the haproxy instance crashes I'll need to reconfigure the producer and consumers. I guess that problem needs to be addressed to the experts of cloud computing.
Beside that I read that the zookeeper guys just working on a way to dynamically add and/or remove zookeeper servers to an existing ensemble. Best regards Tobias Am 06.01.2012 um 09:18 schrieb Pierre-Yves Ritschard: > or you could load-balance access to your ensemble using haproxy or elb > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Tobias Schulze-Heinrichs > <t.schu...@xplosion.de> wrote: >> Hi Neha, >> >> is this an issue which is not implemented in Kafka or does zookeeper doesn't >> offer this information? To describe this problem a little bit more detailed >> - we want to set up a service at the cloud (amazon ec2). Therefor it might >> occur that one instance crashes and came up with a new IP. In that scenario >> I have to reconfigure and restart all Zookeeper and all Kafka server, right? >> >> Best regards >> Tobias >> >> >> Am 05.01.2012 um 21:39 schrieb Neha Narkhede: >> >>> Tobias, >>> >>> Please configure Kafka with the list of all 3 zookeeper servers. The >>> way the zookeeper client works is it just picks one zookeeper server >>> from the list of all zookeeper servers in the connection url. If you >>> miss specifying one server in your connection url, Kafka will never >>> connect to the 3rd server, causing imbalance on the zookeeper cluster. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Neha >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Tobias Schulze-Heinrichs >>> <t.schu...@xplosion.de> wrote: >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> I have an ensemble of 3 ZK Server. Do I need to configure all 3 zookeeper >>>> servers to my Kafka server or is there a possibility that it can get the >>>> address of 2 ZK out of one which is given at my Kafka configuration? >>>> >>>> Best regards >>>> Tobias >>
