Can you use Consul instead of Zookeeper for Kafka

Question

I am looking at using Kafka but the documentation states that I need to set up Zookeeper. I already have a service discovery set up, I am using Consul. I don't want to have to look after Zookeeper as well.

Can you use Consul instead of Zookeeper to run Kafka? If so is there any documentation on how to do this anywhere?

Answer 1

Apache Kafka currently supports only Apache Zookeeper. It doesn't have any out of the box support for Consul.