Towards a ZooKeeper-less Pulsar, etcd, etcd, etcd.

Pulsar Summit San Francisco 2022

Tech Deep Dive

Starting with version 2.10, the Apache ZooKeeper dependency has been eliminated and replaced with a pluggable framework that enables you to reduce the infrastructure footprint of Apache Pulsar by leveraging alternative metadata and coordination systems based on your deployment environment.

In this talk, walk through the steps required to utilize the existing etcd service running inside Kubernetes to act as Pulsar's metadata store, thereby eliminating the need to run ZooKeeper entirely, leaving you with a Zookeeper-less Pulsar.

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