Migrating From Zookeeper to Kraft

Introduction

This document aims to provide you an overview of the steps required to migrate a running Kafka Cluster deployed and controlled with Zookeeper to cluster deployed and controlled with Kraft.

The document highlights the steps for a generic Axual installation, your installation might differ from this example.

After each step, there is a verification phase, that phase is a checkpoint.

You can stop the migration at any checkpoint.

Please execute this procedure on a non-production cluster prior to its use in a production environment.

Prerequisite

  • You are migrating a Kafka cluster deployed with Axual Streaming charts 1.2.2 or higher.

  • You are not overriding any component versions

Steps Overview

  1. Migration to KafkaNodePools

  2. Migration from axual-streaming to axual-kafka charts

  3. Migration to Kraft