kafka broker not available at starting

Question

I set on a ubuntu node of a cluster a kafka 0.11.0.0 instance. Until some weeks ago everything worked fine, today I\'m trying to starting it and I obtain this error after th

Answer 1

error message: "Connection to node -1 could not be established. Broker may not be available"

Solution:

I was getting this error because I was having a different version of kafka running on cluster vs local. Make sure the version is the same. I was specifying the version in pom.xml under properties tag