Metadata Management in Kafka

Metadata storage and leader elections for Apache Kafka® have traditionally handled by ZooKeeper, but as of Confluent Platform 7.5, ZooKeeper is deprecated for new deployments.

You should now use KRaft mode for new deployments.

• For more details on what KRaft is, see KRaft Overview
• For hardware requirements and how to configure and monitor KRaft see KRaft Configuration Reference for Confluent Platform
• For steps to migrate from ZooKeeper to KRaft (Early access), see Migrate from ZooKeeper to KRaft on Confluent Platform
• For how to configure ZooKeeper for production use, see ZooKeeper Configuration Reference for Confluent Platform