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Discussion thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread/mwcljxdnyobthsszy4n2qr2tqcf9cxcf

JIRA: KMETA-1086

Motivation

Some users run KRaft controllers and brokers on the same machine (not containerized, but through tarballs, etc).  Prior to KRaft, when running ZooKeeper and Kafka on the same machine, users could independently stop the ZooKeeper node and Kafka broker since there were specific shell scripts for each (zookeeper-server-stop and kafka-server-stop, respectively).

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