Use of producer.properties and consumer.properties file in Apache Kafka

Question

Inside the Kafka package there is an config folder which has various config files. This folder has consumer.properties and producer.properties files, are these configurati

Answer 1

The consumer.properties and producer.properties files are just examples for configuring a consumer or producer application. They can be used by the kafka-console-consumer console application for example with the --consumer.config paramenter by the kafka-console-producer console application with the --producer.config parameter. In any case even server.properties and zookeeper.properties files are example of configuration for broker and zookeeper.