[patrickthebold]

I thought Kafka stopped using zookeeper.

[theturtle32]

They're working toward that goal.

[beebmam]

2.8.0 is out and it supports zk-less. But I'm not too sure the alternative is much better.

[kevstev]

Confluent will tell you straight out it is not production ready. I know there are other common features not supported, but authorization for example is not supported in the current implementation. They told us 2 years before zook is dead dead.