My thoughts exactly. I don't work with Kafka, but I do heavy work with Solr that also has ZK as a dependency. To end users of whatever platform it is keeping

My thoughts exactly. I don't work with Kafka, but I do heavy work with Solr that also has ZK as a dependency. To end users of whatever platform it is keeping together, Zookeeper is often seen as an unwanted dependency. The unwanted sentiment arises because maintaining zookeeper is not a gimme, and it takes additional knowledge and overhead to maintain. You need a quorum to be kept alive with an odd number (greater than one) of instances. So the question often arises, "how can we get rid of zookeeper?".