https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Does-Kafka-Producer-need-to-know-Zookeper-list/m-p/95534#M8889 <P>kafka producer doesn't need to know about zookeeper cluster. It takes in broker-list as a config option which than used to send topic metadata requests to determine who is the leader of the topic partition</P> Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:12:46 GMT schintalapani 2015-10-18T00:12:46Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Does-Kafka-Producer-need-to-know-Zookeper-list/m-p/95533#M8888 <P>For sending the data to Kafka, Does kafka producer need to know Zookeeper list. My understanding is BrokerList is the only thing which producer needs to know to identify Parition COunt and Partition leader . Or Zookeeper can also provide that information ?</P> Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:03:10 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Does-Kafka-Producer-need-to-know-Zookeper-list/m-p/95533#M8888 Jagatheeshr 2015-10-16T17:03:10Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Does-Kafka-Producer-need-to-know-Zookeper-list/m-p/95534#M8889 <P>kafka producer doesn't need to know about zookeeper cluster. It takes in broker-list as a config option which than used to send topic metadata requests to determine who is the leader of the topic partition</P> Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:12:46 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Does-Kafka-Producer-need-to-know-Zookeper-list/m-p/95534#M8889 schintalapani 2015-10-18T00:12:46Z