Try the --replica-assignment option for kafka-topics.sh. It allows you to specify which brokers to assign as replicas instead of relying on the assignments being made automatically.
-Ewen On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Jilin Xie <jilinxie1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > Is it possible to choose which brokers to use when creating a topic? > The general command of creating topic is: > > *bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 > --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test* > > What I'm looking for is: > > *bin/kafka-topics.sh --create ..... "--broker-to-use xxx;xxx;xxx"* > > > *It's because, I want the topic to be hosted on the brokers which > would be closest to the possible producer.* > > > * Thanks in advance.* > -- Thanks, Ewen
