Is Zookeeper a must for Kafka?

Question

In Kafka, I would like to use only a single broker, single topic and a single partition having one producer and multiple consumers (each consumer getting its own copy of dat

Answer 1

The request to run Kafka without Zookeeper seems to be quite common. The library Charlatan addresses this.

According to the description is Charlatan more or less a mock for Zookeeper, providing the Zookeeper services either backed up by other tools or by a database.

I encountered that library when dealing with the main product of the authors for the Charlatan library; there it works fine …