They will be members of the cluster, yes, but they won't be serving any
partitions unless you create new topics where partitions might be assigned
to the new brokers, or run things which automatically balance partitions
(kafka-monitor does that, and cruise-control can).
You'll need to run
Hi All
I want to increase the Kafka nodes from 3 to 5 and just wondering what need to
be done. Will it work if we directly add the 2 kafka into the cluster without
changing anything?( like the partition, replicas ) ?