Balancing kafka topics when new broker is added

[#1]

Hi,

We currently have 3 kafka brokers and about 250 topics. How do i rebalnce the partitions and data when a new broker is added?

[#2]

I know we can use manual kafka partition reassignment. I'm looking for a better way and we will be adding more disks to the data directory of kafka as well.

[#3]

There currently isn't an automatic way to rebalance topics when adding brokers. kafka-reassign-partitions would be your best option.

-pd

[#4]

Hi @pdvorak

Will adding additional disks also be the same?