This seems like the type of behavior I'd ultimately want from the
controlled shutdown tool
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Replication+tools#Replicationtools-1.ControlledShutdown>.
Currently, I believe the ShutdownBroker causes new leaders to be
selected for any partition the dying node was leading, but I don't think
it explicitly forces a rebalance for topics in which the dying node was
just an ISR (in-sync replica set) member. Ostensibly, leadership
elections are what we want to avoid, due to the Zookeeper chattiness
that would ensue for ensembles with lots of partitions, but I'd wager
we'd benefit from a reduction in rebalances too. The preferred
replication election tool also seems to have some similar level of
control (manual selection of the preferred replicas), but still doesn't
let you add/remove brokers from the ISR directly. I know the
kafka-reassign-partitions tool lets you specify a full list of
partitions and replica assignment, but I don't know how easily
integrated that will be with the lifecycle you described.
Anyone know if controlled shutdown is the right tool for this? Our
devops team will certainly be interested in the canonical answer as well.
--glenn
On 07/22/2013 05:14 AM, Jason Rosenberg wrote:
I'm planning to upgrade a 0.8 cluster from 2 old nodes, to 3 new ones
(better hardware). I'm using a replication factor of 2.
I'm thinking the plan should be to spin up the 3 new nodes, and operate as
a 5 node cluster for a while. Then first remove 1 of the old nodes, and
wait for the partitions on the removed node to get replicated to the other
nodes. Then, do the same for the other old node.
Does this sound sensible?
How does the cluster decide when to re-replicate partitions that are on a
node that is no longer available? Does it only happen if/when new messages
arrive for that partition? Is it on a partition by partition basis?
Or is it a cluster-level decision that a broker is no longer valid, in
which case all affected partitions would immediately get replicated to new
brokers as needed?
I'm just wondering how I will know when it will be safe to take down my
second old node, after the first one is removed, etc.
Thanks,
Jason
