Unfortunately, no - the mirroring mechanism needs ZK to function. I think some people have used plain rsync's to maintain mirrors, but if there is a strong case for this then we can think about implementing a less full-fledged mirroring component that uses SimpleConsumer and talks to the brokers directly without using ZK.
Joel On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Christian Carollo <ccaro...@gmail.com>wrote: > This configuration can be done with out ZK, correct? > > On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Joel Koshy <jjkosh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I see - yes that should be fine. i.e., as long as the topics are distinct > > then you can mirror both ways and the topic "owned" by each machine > should > > be read-only on the other machine. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joel > > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Christian Carollo <ccaro...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> Hi Joel, > >> > >> Thanks for getting back to me. I actually missed your response. > >> > >> What I really am trying to is… > >> > >> Have two machines each running a single broker (not clustered)? One > topic > >> is homed on machine A > >> an mirrored to machine B and another topic is homed on machine B and > >> mirrored to machine A. > >> > >> When machine A goes down machine B can take over as owner of the topic > >> that machine A was previously owner of. > >> > >> Is that clearer? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Christian > >> > >> On Jul 18, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Joel Koshy <jjkosh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Missed this thread - can you elaborate a bit more on your use case? I'm > >>> assuming you are referring to the inter-cluster (mirroring) feature > (and > >>> not replication). It isn't really possible for two clusters to mirror > >> each > >>> other - as the mirroring would never end, at least the way it is > >>> implemented right now. If you want the aggregate data from all your > >>> data-centers to be available in each data-center there are some > >> topologies > >>> that may work for you. > >>> > >>> Joel > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Christian Carollo <ccaro...@gmail.com > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> We are looking to implement a multi-mirror queue architecture and > >>>> wondering if there are any known documents or examples. In general, > we > >> are > >>>> looking to setup two Kafka clusters that replicate or mirror one > >> another. > >>>> > >>>> Christian > >> > >> > >
