Hello, I have a Pulsar cluster (3 bookies, 3 brokers, 2 proxies) running in Kubernetes. My clients applications are also in Kubernetes. My client applications are currently configured to use the proxy.
The proxies are load balanced on pulsar-proxy.example.com Each proxy is configured with a single entry on brokerServiceURL=pulsar://brokers.example.com:6650 brokers.example.com is load balancing the 3 brokers. I have some questions that I have not been able to get an answer to by reading the docs. a) Since all my client applications are in the same Kubernetes space, do I really need to use the proxy? Seems to me that the proxy is only needed if my clients could not connect to the brokers directly and that the proxy is adding some overhead. b) If we do not use the proxy, can we configure the client with the single load-balanced broker address? Or do we need to provide a list of individual brokers to the client? Will the client get the list of all brokers and connect directly to them? c) If I provide a list of individual brokers (broker1, broker2, broker3) to my client, but later I add more brokers (or remove some), I would need to eventually reconfigure my client application with the list of active members, right? Thanks a lot -Jorge
