Hi there, Kafka's `kafka-reassign-partitions.sh` tool currently has no mechanism for removing brokers. However, it does have the ability to generate partition plans across arbitrary sets of brokers, by using `--generate`, passing all the topics in the cluster into it, then passing the generated plan to --execute.
This isn't ideal, because it (from my understanding), potentially moves all the partitions in the entire cluster around, but it should work fine, and stop Kafka from having the partitions assigned to a broker that no longer exists. Am I missing something there? Or is this a reasonable workaround until better partition reassignment tools turn up in the future? Thanks Tom
