Kafka server configuration - listeners vs. advertised.listeners

Question

To get Kafka running, you need to set some properties in config/server.properties file. There are two settings I don\'t understand.

Can somebody explai

Answer 1

listeners is what the broker will use to create server sockets.

advertised.listeners is what clients will use to connect to the brokers.

The two settings can be different if you have a "complex" network setup (with things like public and private subnets and routing in between).