Manage Clusters in Confluent Platform¶
Confluent Platform provides features to help you manage Apache Kafka® cluster rebalancing and cost.
The following topics are included in this section:
- Metadata Management in Kafka- Discusses the options for metadata storage and leader elections for a cluster.
- Manage Self-Balancing Kafka Clusters in Confluent Platform - With this feature enabled, a cluster automatically rebalances partitions across brokers when new brokers are added or existing brokers are removed.
- Quick Start for Auto Data Balancing in Confluent Platform - A tool that balances data so that the number of leaders and disk usage are even across brokers and racks on a per topic and cluster level while minimizing data movement. Starting with Confluent Platform 6.0.x, Manage Self-Balancing Kafka Clusters in Confluent Platform is the preferred alternative to Quick Start for Auto Data Balancing in Confluent Platform.
- Tiered Storage - A feature that helps make storing huge volumes of data in Kafka manageable by reducing operational burden and cost.
If you’re just getting started with Confluent Platform and Kafka, see also Kafka Basics on Confluent Platform and Quick Start for Confluent Platform.