Data Lake for Enterprises

Zookeeper

Zookeeper is one of the very important hidden component, needed (mandatory) for Kafka to function properly. It is entrusted to do the following jobs:

• Taking care of bringing each broker into the cluster membership.
• Electing the Kafka controller which does some very important functions within the cluster such as managing the state of partitions and their replicas.
• Complete topic configurations like number of partitions, leader partitions election, partition replication location and so on.
• Access control list maintenance and various quotas within each broker.