Is it possible to use Burrow with Kafka cluster running in the KRaft mode?

[bachmanity1]

Zookeeper ensemble address is a required parameter in Burrow, but KRaft mode doesn't have any zookeeper. Is there any plan to remove dependency on zookeeper?

[bachmanity1]

@bai could you help please?

[shamil]

Afaik, zookeeper is just needed to store burrow specific data, it's doesn't need to read Kafka broker or cluster specific data.

[janengelmohr]

@shamil Technically correct but that would still mean that we have to spin up a whole ZK ensemble in order to run Burrow with a Kafka cluster in KRaft mode which is fine if you already run a ZK ensemble somewhere. If you do not (and I assume this is the majority of users) Burrow is not usable with KRaft as of now I'd say.

[shamil]

We run a single instance of zookeeper alongside burrow on k8s pod.

See #534 for reference.