Thanks Eric,
The situation is like this - we have only a single broker and it has to
make a clean break from PLAINTEXT, but our clients are all either old or
new (upgraded to SSL). The old ones will obviously not be able to work
against the upgraded broker. The problem is I have 18 (only a slight
Zookeeper definitely has the information about endpoints and protocol.
The /brokers/ids/ paths in zookeeper contains the endpoints that
are open on the broker.
I have doubts that you'll be able to make this change without any downtime
though. To my knowledge, clients are only capable of using one
I have a situation where I have to upgrade a distributed system in a
piecemeal from plaintext to ssl between kafka clients and broker.
Is there a simple way to detect from the client if it should be trying to
use plaintext or ssl - from a kafka API perspective? I can do a low-level
trick like open
