Does Kafka Producer need to know Zookeper list ?

[#1]

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 ?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

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