Open Kafka to requests from other hosts

[#1]

Hi all,

I'm currently evaluating Hortonworks and wondering if it's possible to open access to the Kafka-Service, for more than just the Ambari-Host itself. Actually it would be a requirement for the Ops-Team.

I tried to manipulate the configfiles, but without any success. Even SSH-Port-Tunneling to the Server doesn't help me accessing the Kafka port 6667.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Matthias

[#2 · Accepted solution]

By default ambari installed kafka binds to host.name of that machine. So you can access the kafka broker based on hostname from any other machines as long as hostname is DNS resolved or add it to your /etc/hosts