Brokers should be able to pull from a meta data store to get their configurations.

Status

Current state: "Under Discussion"

Discussion thread: here

JIRA: here

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

Motivation

It is dangerous to have the possibility of different configuration on different brokers. Even if folks use orchestration system it could be disastrous for a Kafka cluster if that system didn't work/update right.

Public Interfaces

• Command line tools and arguments

Proposed Changes

You can keep using properties as you do today. If you decide to use the global configuration feature then only a few properties will be able to be overridden e.g. host and port. All other properties will either be default or set in the central meta store for retrieving the settings.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

• When will we remove the existing behavior?

I don't think we have to decide that now.

Rejected Alternatives

If there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing, what were they? The purpose of this section is to motivate why the design is the way it is and not some other way.