Master KIP

KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum (Accepted)

Status

Current state: Under discussionAccepted

Discussion thread:

JIRA:   KAFKA-9397

Motivation

As part of KIP-500, we would like to remove direct ZooKeeper access from the Kafka Administrative tools.  We have many motivations for doing this.  It improves security, decouples the server-side metadata format from the client, and is a necessary first step towards storing Kafka metadata in Kafka.

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