GitHub user onurkaraman opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2177
KAFKA-3959: enforce offsets.topic.replication.factor Kafka brokers have a config called "offsets.topic.replication.factor" that specify the replication factor for the "__consumer_offsets" topic. The problem is that this config isn't being enforced. If an attempt to create the internal topic is made when there are fewer brokers than "offsets.topic.replication.factor", the topic ends up getting created anyway with the current number of live brokers. The current behavior is pretty surprising when you have clients or tooling running as the cluster is getting setup. Even if your cluster ends up being huge, you'll find out much later that __consumer_offsets was setup with no replication. The cluster not meeting the "offsets.topic.replication.factor" requirement on the internal topic is another way of saying the cluster isn't fully setup yet. The right behavior should be for "offsets.topic.replication.factor" to be enforced. Topic creation of the internal topic should fail with GROUP_COORDINATOR_NOT_AVAILABLE until the "offsets.topic.replication.factor" requirement is met. This closely resembles the behavior of regular topic creation when the requested replication factor exceeds the current size of the cluster, as the request fails with error INVALID_REPLICATION_FACTOR. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/onurkaraman/kafka KAFKA-3959 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/2177.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2177 ---- commit ef8558215ff049f0787ae6df688fd25194b7aae2 Author: Onur Karaman <okara...@linkedin.com> Date: 2016-11-28T05:29:28Z KAFKA-3959: enforce offsets.topic.replication.factor Kafka brokers have a config called "offsets.topic.replication.factor" that specify the replication factor for the "__consumer_offsets" topic. The problem is that this config isn't being enforced. If an attempt to create the internal topic is made when there are fewer brokers than "offsets.topic.replication.factor", the topic ends up getting created anyway with the current number of live brokers. The current behavior is pretty surprising when you have clients or tooling running as the cluster is getting setup. Even if your cluster ends up being huge, you'll find out much later that __consumer_offsets was setup with no replication. The cluster not meeting the "offsets.topic.replication.factor" requirement on the internal topic is another way of saying the cluster isn't fully setup yet. The right behavior should be for "offsets.topic.replication.factor" to be enforced. Topic creation of the internal topic should fail with GROUP_COORDINATOR_NOT_AVAILABLE until the "offsets.topic.replication.factor" requirement is met. This closely resembles the behavior of regular topic creation when the requested replication factor exceeds the current size of the cluster, as the request fails with error INVALID_REPLICATION_FACTOR. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---