Re: kafka cluster behind a hardware load balancer

2014-03-31 Thread kafka user
connects to the right brokers according to the metadata response. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:04 PM, kafka user > wrote: > > > If we have a kafka producer connecting to a Kafka cluster behind a > hardware > > Load Balancer (VIP),

kafka cluster behind a hardware load balancer

2014-03-31 Thread kafka user
If we have a kafka producer connecting to a Kafka cluster behind a hardware Load Balancer (VIP), will producer be able to send a message to a right partition ? Can one of the brokers in a cluster do a broker discovery to forward the message to ? I guess my question is whether it makes sense to use