Kafka consumer fails to consume if first broker is down

Question

I\'m using latest version of kafka(kafka_2.12-1.0.0.tgz). I have setup simple cluster with 3 brokers(just changed broker.id=1 and listeners=PLAINTEXT://:9092 in properties f

Answer 1

Using KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR on yml file solve this issue.

E.g. Using 2 workers on docker-swarm.

environment:
      KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 2