zookeeper failover for kafka cluster

Question

I am wondering is there any way to make the zookeeper failover for kafka cluster. For example: i want to setup 2 zookeeper instances for my kafka cluster. In case of one zookeeper fails, Kafka servers still able to read metadata of topics from second zookeeper.

any advice is highle appricicated.

Answer 1

Zookeeper works as a so-called quorum – a cluster of nodes that forms a consensus based on simple majority votes.

For production, you should use 3 or 5 Zookeeper instances in a quorum. If you're using 3, your cluster can survive losing one server (because the remaining two form a simple majority). With 5, you can lose two servers because 3 is a majority of 5.

2 is a bad idea because your cluster won't work if 1 node goes down.

Please check this question

Answer 2

$KAFKA_HOME/config/server.properties

Here you can set multiple zookeeper

zookeeper.connect=<server1>:2181,<server2>:2181,<server2>:2181

Maintain 2n+1(quorum ) rule in case of zookeeper