Metadata Management of Kafka in Confluent Platform

As of Confluent Platform version 8.0, metadata storage and leader elections for Apache Kafka® are handled by Kafka using KRaft controllers.

• For more details on what KRaft is, see KRaft Overview for Confluent Platform

• For hardware requirements and how to configure and monitor KRaft see KRaft Configuration for Confluent Platform

• For steps to migrate from ZooKeeper to KRaft, see Migrate from ZooKeeper to KRaft on Confluent Platform

• For links to ZooKeeper documentation for older versions of Confluent Platform, see ZooKeeper Topic Guide