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Jin Lee
Jin Lee

Reputation: 3512

Setting up a multi-broker cluster (kafka quickstart)

I am trying to follow QUICKSTART in Apache Kafka homepage.

In Step 6: Setting up a multi-broker cluster, it says " edit the server properties"

config/server-1:properties: 

   broker.id=1
   listeners = PLAINTEXT://:9093
   logs.dirs=/tmp/kafka-logs-1

My question is :

Do I use vi editor to edit? if yes, I just change those 'broker', 'listeners','logs.dirs' items' values as above?

kafka QUICKSTART server-1.properties edit

Upvotes: 1

Views: 122

Answers (1)

OneCricketeer
OneCricketeer

Reputation: 191743

Whichever tool you prefer, it needs to be able to change values and save the file. You could use sed if you really wanted to (like some Docker containers might do... On that note, you could even just use Docker Compose to start two Kafka containers side by side)

But, as the docs point out, those three properties should be unique across all brokers on a single machine, and all others can remain unchanged.

I would like to point out that having two broker processes on one machine, sharing a single disk, is not a good idea. You'd get better performance with a larger heap space on that one server

Upvotes: 2

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