Provision topics with a Zookeeper provider about terraform-provider-kafka

[Mongey]

👋 Hey @edify42, sorry for the delay. Can you explain why you would want to connect via zookeeper, rather than talking directly to Kafka?

[edify42]

Hey @Mongey - we have a multi broker kafka deployment which we setup from Confluent documentation The kafka metadata is managed by Zookeeper and the out-of-the-box scripts provided in the kafka docs suggest we connect with zookeeper to manage things like topic creation and ACLs. Ideally we'd do it all via this TF provider so I think there's a requirement to connect to Zookeeper instead of Kafka directly.

[Mongey]

Topics and ACLs can be managed through the Kafka broker, and therefore via this provider, there’s no need to connect to zookeeper.

I’m going to close this out, I didn’t intend to support anything that is enabled by fudging configs in zookeeper to make Kafka do something. Those feature requests should happen in apache/Kafka and expose functionality via the api for others (this provider) to use.