Zookeeper is not part of the kafka project and must be installed separately. Confluent maintain a version compatibility table you can use as a reference: https://docs.confluent.io/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html#zk <https://docs.confluent.io/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html#zk>
> On Jul 23, 2020, at 1:05 PM, M. Manna <manme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > AFAIK, ZK is packed with Kafka. So if you upgrade to 2.4.1 you’ll get what > is in 2.4.1. > > It’s a little different however, if you’re hosting ZK in a different host > running independently of Kafka. > > What’s your situation ? > > > > On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 21:02, Andrey Klochkov <akloch...@liftoff.io> wrote: > >> Hello, >> We're upgrading our Kafka from 1.1.0 to 2.4.1 and I'm wondering if ZK needs >> to be upgraded too (we're currently on 3.4.6). The upgrade guide says that >> "kafka has switched to the XXX version of ZK" but never says if switching >> to a newer ZK is mandatory or not. What are the guidelines on keeping Kafka >> and ZK compatible? >> >> -- >> Andrey Klochkov >>