▪ How we are managing and coordinating Kafka brokers ?

▪ Kafka Cluster and including Kafka brokers need to manage.

▪ Management job is handled by the master node in the distributed systems.

▪ This master node manage and maintenances the other worker(nodes) in order to work correctly.

▪ In Apache Kafka, there isn’t any master in the Apache Kafka Cluster.

▪ Apache Kafka Cluster isn't a master-worker architecture; it’s a

master-less architecture.

▪ ZooKeeper is used for managing and coordinating Kafka

broker. The zookeeper manages and maintains the brokers

in the cluster.

▪ Finds which brokers have been crashed or which broker

recently added to the cluster and manage their lifecycle

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