The new consumer implementation, which should be included in 0.8.3, only needs a bootstrap.servers setting and does not use a zookeeper connection.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:26 PM, noah <iamn...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are setting up a new Kafka project (0.8.2.1) and are trying to go > straight to consumer offsets stored in Kafka. Unfortunately it looks like > the Java consumer will try to connect to ZooKeeper regardless of the > settings. > > Will/When will this dependency go away completely? It would simplify our > deployments if our consumers didn't have to connect to ZooKeeper at all. > > P.S. I've asked this on Stack Overflow, if you would like to answer there > for posterity: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30719331/kafka-0-8-2-1-offsets-storage-kafka-still-requires-zookeeper > -- Thanks, Ewen
