Kafka Brokers

A single Kafka server is called a Kafka Broker. The Kafka Broker is the container of topics, it holds several topics with their multiple partitions. Each broker is a separate process that runs on a different machine and communicates with other brokers through a network.

A cluster can have multiple brockers and each broker is identified by a unique numeric ID and the brocker contains certain topic partitions. All the topic partitions data is Distributed across all brokers(load balanced).

1. A single Kafka server is called Kafka Broker.

2. The Kafka Broker is the container of topics, it holds several topics with their multiple partitions..

3. A cluster can have multiple brockers and each broker is identified by a unique numeric ID.

4. the Brocker contains certain topic partitions.

In the next topic, you will understand about Kafka Topics