Re: Kafka running in VPN

2017-03-23 Thread Ben Stopford
The bootstrap servers are only used to make an initial connection. From there the clients's request metadata which provides them with a 'map' of the cluster. The addresses in the metadata are those registered in Zookeeper by each broker. They don't relate to the bootstrap list in any way. You can c

Kafka running in VPN

2017-03-22 Thread Subroto Sanyal
Hello I am using Kafka-0.10.0 My Kafka brokers are running on a 3 node cluster in a VPN. The consumer and producer are not part of VPN; so I use ssh tunnels and update the bootstrap servers on the Kafka Client (consumer and producer) config accordingly. The Kafka Client is able to initiate the pri