Is Zookeeper a must for Kafka?

Question

In Kafka, I would like to use only a single broker, single topic and a single partition having one producer and multiple consumers (each consumer getting its own copy of dat

Answer 1

Other than the usual payload message transfer, there are many other communications that happens in kafka, like

• Events related to brokers requesting the cluster membership.
• Events related to Brokers becoming available.
• Getting bootstrap config setups.
• Events related to controller and leader updates.
• Help status updates like Heartbeat updates.

Zookeeper itself is a distributed system consisting of multiple nodes in an ensemble. Zookeeper is centralised service for maintaining such metadata.