[KAFKA-9337] Simplifying standalone mm2-connect config

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0
• Component/s: connect, mirrormaker
• Assignee: karan kumar
• Reporter: karan kumar
• Reviewer: Ryanne Dolan
• Created: 27/Dec/19 10:28
• Updated: 23/Dec/23 13:26
• Resolved: 07/Jan/20 17:02

Description

One of the nice things about kafka is setting up in the local environment is really simple. I was giving a try to the latest feature ie MM2 and found it took me some time to get a minimal setup running.
Default config provided assumes that there will already be 3 brokers running due to the default replication factor of the admin topics the mm2 connector creates.

This got me thinking that most of the people would follow the same approach I followed.
1. Start a single broker cluster on 9092
2. Start another single cluster broker on, let's say, 10002
3. Start mm2 by"./bin/connect-mirror-maker.sh ./config/connect-mirror-maker.properties"

What happened was I had to supply a lot more configs

This jira is created post discussion on the mailing list:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/[e-mail]%3E

cc ryannedolan

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7872