Kafka Broker Discovery

The video tutorial explains how Kafka brokers function as bootstrap servers, allowing clients to connect to any broker and automatically discover the rest of the cluster. It covers the concept of metadata, which helps clients identify which broker holds specific topics and partitions. The tutorial also details how clients use metadata requests to connect to brokers and highlights the automatic nature of this process, simplifying client connections in large Kafka clusters.

What is the role of a bootstrap server in a Kafka cluster?

Explain the concept of metadata in the context of Kafka brokers.

What happens when a client connects to a broker in a Kafka cluster?

How does a Kafka client discover other brokers in the cluster?

Why is it sufficient to connect to just one broker in a Kafka cluster?