Summary
The Kafka Producer API requires a list of host/port pairs for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster, known as the bootstrap servers. This list of servers is used by the client to bootstrap itself, regardless of which servers are specified.
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The bootstrap servers are a comma-separated list of host and port pairs that are the addresses of the Kafka brokers in a "bootstrap" Kafka cluster.
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servers is a mandatory field in Kafka Producer API . It contains a list of host/port pairs for establishing the initial connection to the Kafka cluster. The client will make use of all servers irrespective of which servers are specified here for bootstrapping.
What is the importance of Kafka bootstrap servers | Edureka Community
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How to connect clients to Kafka hosted in separate networks, such as Docker, AWS EC2, ... machine itself: $ echo "foo"|kafka-console-producer --broker-list ...
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