Re: Pros and cons of dockerizing kafka brokers?

2016-07-08 Thread Mudit Agarwal
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } i am running 5 broker kafka cluster on docker and using mesos cluster manager and marathon framework  Sent from Yahoo Mail

Re: Pros and cons of dockerizing kafka brokers?

2016-07-08 Thread Christian
We're using AWS ECS for our Kafka cluster of six nodes. We did some performance testing on a three node cluster and the results were as good as the Linkedin published results on bare metal machines. We are using EBS st1 drives. The bottleneck is the network to the ebs volumes. So for about 25%

Re: Pros and cons of dockerizing kafka brokers?

2016-07-08 Thread Krish
Thanks, Christian. I am currently reading about kafka-on-mesos. I will hack something this weekend to see if I can bring up a kafka scheduler on mesos using dockerized brokers. . -- κρισhναν On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Christian Posta wrote: > One thing I can

Re: Pros and cons of dockerizing kafka brokers?

2016-07-07 Thread Christian Posta
One thing I can think of is Kafka likes lots of OS page cache. Dockerizing from the standpoint of packaging configs is a good idea, just make sure if you're running many brokers together on the same host, they've got enough resources (CPU/Mem) so they don't starve each other. On Thu, Jul 7, 2016

Pros and cons of dockerizing kafka brokers?

2016-07-07 Thread Krish
Hi, I am currently testing a custom docker volume driver plugin for AWS EFS/EBS access and mounting. So, running kafka broker inside a container makes will ease up a lot of configuration issues wrt storage for me. Are there any pros and cons of dockerizing kafka broker? Off the top of my head,