Re: Using Kafka CLI without specifying the URLs every single time?

Hi All, Thanks for the inputs: apparently this is an issue for which everyone tries to come up with a solution. I think it should be done in the core Kafka CLI; it cries for a feature request/improvement. I've created a JIRA issue for it; if you think it would be helpful for you as well, please

Re: Using Kafka CLI without specifying the URLs every single time?

Us too: https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/production/modules/confluent/files/kafka/kafka.sh This requires that the various kafka-* scrips are in your PATH. And then this gets rendered into /etc/profile.d to set env variables.

Re: Using Kafka CLI without specifying the URLs every single time?

We also have created simple wrapper scripts for common operations. On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Peter Bukowinski wrote: > One solution is to build wrapper scripts around the standard kafka > scripts. You’d put your relevant cluster parameters (brokers, zookeepers) > in a

Re: Using Kafka CLI without specifying the URLs every single time?

One solution is to build wrapper scripts around the standard kafka scripts. You’d put your relevant cluster parameters (brokers, zookeepers) in a single config file (I like yaml), then your script would import that config file and pass the appropriate parameters to the kafka command. You could

Re: Using Kafka CLI without specifying the URLs every single time?

HTH Martin __ From: Horváth Péter Gergely <horvath.peter.gerg...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 6:23 AM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Using Kafka CLI without specifying the URLs every single time? Hello

Using Kafka CLI without specifying the URLs every single time?

Hello All, I wondering if there is any way to avoid having to enter the host URLs for each Kafka CLI command you execute. This is kind of tedious as different CLI commands require specifying different servers (--broker-list, --bootstrap-server and --zookeeper); which is especially painful if the