Re: Can we use VIP ip rather than Kafka Broker host name in bootstrap string

I use a VIP in my production system and I haven't had any issues

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:21 PM Peter Bukowinski <pmbuko@gmail.com> wrote:

> I do something like this in my environment to simplify things. We use a
> consul service address, e.g 'kafka.service.subdomain.consul', to provide
> the VIP, which returns the address of a live broker in the cluster. Kafka
> clients use that address in their configs. It works very well.
>
> —
> Peter
>
> > On Aug 26, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Manoj.Agrawal2@cognizant.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi All ,
> > Can we use VIP ip rather than Kafka Broker host name in bootstrap
> string at producer side ?
> > Any concern or recommendation way
>