From my understanding zookeeper knows all the kafka brokers that are currently present in the cluster. So when the consumer/consumer group connects, it can get to know which brokers to connect to. Correct me if I am wrong.
In my usecase, kafka cluster is running in an cloud environment and kafka brokers can get added to the cluster or removed based on needs, dynamically. This means zookeepers are the only machines that are here to stay. That is why giving zookeeper connects makes my life easier in this scenario :). Is it possible?
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