Hi Tomer, 1. Yes, one broker can (will) be a leader for multiple partitions - you'll usually have a relatively small number of brokers in your cluster, but they will store data for many topics, with many partitions, so (assuming auto.leader.rebalance.enable is set to true; I think it's thedefault in recent Kafka versions?) the leadership will be split more or less evenly between all the brokers that given partition is replicated to. 2. No, not for a "healthy" cluster - as soon as such state is "detected" (e.g. after broker went down), controller should fix it immediately and "rebalance" the leadership.
Michał On 4 October 2017 at 14:30, Tomer Shavit <morpash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding kafka. if i have cluster which contains only > one broker, and i have topic which contains 2 partions. does it mean that > the same broker will be the leader for those 2 partitions ? can broker be > the leader for more than one partition ? > > Thanks, > Tomer >
