What is Kafka Cluster?

The Kafka cluster is a group of Kafka brokers that work together to handle the data or messages for Kafka system. Each broker is a separate process that runs on a different machine and communicates with other brokers through a network.

Kafka cluster contains ZooKeeper for maintaining their cluster state.

  1. The Kafka cluster is a group of Kafka brokers.

  2. Each broker is a separate process that runs on a different machine and communicates with other brokers through a network.

  3. Kafka cluster contains ZooKeeper for maintaining their cluster state.

  4. Kafka Cluster contains Kafka brokers, brokers contains topics, topic contains partitions and they works together.

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Kafka Cluster

Create Kafka Cluster

How to create Kafka Cluster?

In the next topic, you will understand about Kafka API