Jens/Kant not aware of any shortfall with zookeeper so perhaps you can suggest advantages for Consul vs Zookeeper? Maven (I am building, testing and running kafka internally with maven) implements wagon-providers for URLConnection vs HttpURLConnection wagonshttps://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-wagon-providers.html Thinking a network_provider should work for integrating external network provider. how would you architect this integration?
would a configurable network-provider such as maven-wagon-provider work for kafka?Martin > From: kanth...@gmail.com > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Re: any update on this? > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:41:10 +0000 > > Yes ofcourse the goal shouldn't be moving towards consul. It should just be > flexible enough for users to pick any distributed coordinated system. > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 2:23 AM, Jens Rantil jens.ran...@tink.se > wrote: > I think I read somewhere that the long-term goal is to make Kafka > > independent of Zookeeper alltogether. Maybe not worth spending time on > > migrating to Consul in that case. > > > > > Cheers, > > Jens > > > > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 10:38 PM Jennifer Fountain <jfount...@meetme.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > +2 watching. > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 2:45 AM, kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1793 > > > > It would be great to use Consul instead of Zookeeper for Kafka and I > > > think > > > > it > > > > would benefit Kafka a lot from the exponentially growing consul > > > community. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > Jennifer Fountain > > > DevOPS > > > > > -- > > > > > Jens Rantil > > Backend Developer @ Tink > > > > > Tink AB, Wallingatan 5, 111 60 Stockholm, Sweden > > For urgent matters you can reach me at +46-708-84 18 32.
