Ah I forgot about the replicator name part :-)

Glad to hear that you figured everything out!

Thanks,
Sijie

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 7:03 AM Chris S <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Sijie,
>
> Thanks a lot for the input - with your instructions I managed to get it
> working.
>
> Pushing it a bit further using the standalone cluster with *three*
> deployments starts failing with the message
>
> 17:03:21.400 [pulsar-io-50-1] ERROR
> org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.ProducerImpl - [
> persistent://digital/dms/hello] [pulsar.repl.standalone] Failed to create
> producer: Producer with name 'pulsar.repl.standalone' is already connected
> to topic
>
> Given three clusters a, b and c all of which use “standalone” for their
> the local cluster I can only send messages to one of the two others. When
> getting the stats of the topic there is a replication backlog, I guess
> because of the error above.
>
> Fiddling around a bit I managed to change the default standalone cluster
> name, please find the result at
>
> https://github.com/chrsoo/apache-pulsar-standalone-geo-replication
>
> I added kudos to you and to Brian as you both were instrumental to my
> understanding - thanks for the help!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christoffer
> PS Tell me if you want your names removed...
>
> On 22 Nov 2019, at 17:17, Sijie Guo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Christoffer,
>
> You don't need a global zookeeper to make geo-replication work. Thus, you
> don't need different cluster names as well since you don't need a global
> zookeeper.
> The existence of a global zookeeper is used for simplifying management of
> replication configuration.
>
> All you need to do is let your "standalone" clusters know how to connect
> to the other "standalone" cluster, by creating (registering) a cluster at
> each side.
>
> Here are the steps to configure geo-replication between two standalone
> clusters.
>
> 0) assume you have two standalone clusters, one is A, the other one is B.
> 1) at standalone A, create a cluster "standalone-b" using
> "bin/pulsar-admin clusters create". what it basically does is letting
> standalone A knows how to connect to standalone B.
> 2) at standalone B, create a cluster "standalone-a" using
> "bin/pulsar-admin clusters create". what it basically does is letting
> standalone B knows how to connect to standalone A.
> 3) at standalone A, create a tenant "my-tenant" and configure the allowed
> clusters for "my-tenant" to be "standalone" (standalone A cluster) and
> "standalone-b".
> 4) at standalone B, create a tenant "my-tenant" and configure the allowed
> clusters for "my-tenant" to be "standalone" (standalone B cluster) and
> "standalone-a".
> 5) at standalone A, create a namespace "my-tenant/my-ns" and configure the
> replicated clusters to be "standalone" and "standalone-b".
> 6) at standalone B, create a namespace "my-tenant/my-ns” and configure the
> replicated clusters to be "standalone" and "standalone-a".
> 7) util this point, you already setup a bi-direction replication between
> standalone-a and standalone-b.
>
> Using this approach, you are able to configure one-way replication or
> aggregated replication as well.
>
> - Sijie
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 7:36 AM Chris S <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> Thanks for the answer!
>>
>> Currently I don’t have any real error to show, mostly I am a bit confused
>> and just need to know that I am not wasting my time trying to figure it all
>> out.
>>
>> The cluster name is per default “standalone” for both my standalone
>> clusters and I would think I need to setup different names for them for the
>> geo-replication to work properly.
>>
>> So so I am trying to following the instructions on Pulsar geo-replication
>> <https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/administration-geo/>, setting up
>> tenants, namespaces and creating a new cluster with its own name etc as
>> required. Then it seems I have to initialise the metadata for the cluster,
>> with zookeeper URL’s and what not and it is somewhere here that I am
>> starting to doubt that I am doing it the right way.
>>
>> Any additional pointers are appreciated!
>>
>> A few specific questions:
>>
>>    - Is the assumption that I need different names correct? Or can I use
>>    the “standalone” cluster?
>>    - If I need to create a new cluster should I initialise metadata the
>>    same way as for a “real” cluster?
>>
>> In any case, thanks for the input so far!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Christoffer
>> PS I also have issues making the pulsar dashboard to work properly.
>> Basically I can see the standalone cluster but nothing else. No channels,
>> tenants etc. To set it up I followed the kubernetes instructions
>> <https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/v1.22.0-incubating/deployment/Kubernetes/> 
>> but
>> adapted the broker configuration for standalone and removed all bookies,
>> zookeeper etc. The broker, prometheus and grafana seems to work properly
>> but not the dashboard.
>>
>>
>> On 22 Nov 2019, at 13:27, Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 22/11/2019 12:24, Chris S wrote:
>>
>> Does anybody know if it Is possible to do geo replication using
>> *standalone* deployments in Kubernetes on a local workstation? Or are
>> there limitations to the standalone deployment that prevents you from doing
>> geo replication?
>>
>> A standalone cluster is still a cluster.
>>
>> Have you tried turning on geo-replication between two standalone
>> clusters?  If it failed, what error did you see?
>>
>>
>>
>

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