Thanks for the additional information Colin. On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 4:43 PM Colin McCabe <cmcc...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi José, > > I think these are good questions. We have a few situations like this where > there is something brokers have to know before they can contact the > controller quorum -- or something controllers have to know before they can > accept broker connections. Basically, the bootstrapping problem. > > Offhand, I can think of a few scenarios like this: > 1. If you need certain ACLs to be present, you need a way of setting those up > on the controller before starting the controller quorum for the first time. > 2. If you are using SCRAM for the broker user, you need some way of setting > that up before starting up the cluster for the first time. > 3. If you are using KIP-226 dynamic broker configurations to configure the > SSL settings for the connection to the controller, you need a way of setting > those up before starting the broker.
It sounds to me like KIP-801 is assuming that this "bootstrapping KIP" will at least generate a snapshot with this information in all of the controllers. I would like to understand this a bit better. Do you think that we need to write this "bootstrapping KIP" as soon as possible? Thanks -José
