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Reputation: 6854

Zookeeper/Kafka with Tomcat - Possible At All?

I was wondering if someone has used zookeeper/kafka embeeded within Tomcat. I know that Kafka requires Zookeeper, but does it mean that I have to run Kafka and Zookeeper as separate instances? So far I cannot see any use cases where everything has been bolt in. Could anyone advise?

My question is more around the concept of using zookeeper and kafka as a jar within the same tomcat web application.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1282

Answers (1)

Horia Coman
Horia Coman

Reputation: 8781

Both Kafka and Zookeeper are meant to be used in a stand-alone fashion, run as separate processes.

They should even be on different machines/vms/containers than the tomcat web application.

You also probably want a Zookeeper cluster of 3-5 machines, rather than a single one, at least for production.

Both of them have Java clients though, for you to interact from the web application with them, and those are OK to include.

Upvotes: 4

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