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Apache Kafka 1.0 Cookbook

You're reading from   Apache Kafka 1.0 Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes on using distributed enterprise messaging to handle real-time data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286849
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Raúl Estrada Raúl Estrada
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Alexey Zinoviev Alexey Zinoviev
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring Kafka FREE CHAPTER 2. Kafka Clusters 3. Message Validation 4. Message Enrichment 5. The Confluent Platform 6. Kafka Streams 7. Managing Kafka 8. Operating Kafka 9. Monitoring and Security 10. Third-Party Tool Integration

Balancing leadership


A leader broker of a topic partition can be crashed or stopped, and then the leadership is transferred to another replica. This might produce an imbalance in the lead Kafka brokers (an imbalance is when the leader is dead or unreachable). To recover from this imbalance, we need balancing leadership.

Getting ready

For this recipe, a Kafka cluster setup with several nodes is needed. One of the Kafka nodes is down, and subsequently, it is restored.

How to do it...

Run the following command from the Kafka installation directory:

$ bin/kafka-preferred-replica-election.sh --zookeeperlocalhost:2181/chroot  

How it works...

If the list of replicas for a partition is [3, 5, 8], then node 3 is preferred as the leader, rather than nodes 5 or 8. This is because it is earlier in the replica list. By running this command, we tell the Kafka cluster to try to restore leadership to the restored replicas.

To explain how it works, suppose that after the leader stops, new Kafka nodes join the cluster...

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