Getting the bootstrap brokers for an Amazon MSK Cluster
Getting the bootstrap brokers using the AWS Management Console
The term bootstrap brokers refers to a list of brokers that an Apache Kafka client can use as a starting point to connect to the cluster. This list doesn't necessarily include all of the brokers in a cluster.
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Open the Amazon MSK console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/msk/
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The table shows all the clusters for the current region under this account. Choose the name of a cluster to view its description.
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On the Cluster summary page, choose View client information. This shows you the bootstrap servers, as well as the Apache ZooKeeper connection string.
Getting the bootstrap brokers using the AWS CLI
Run the following command, replacing ClusterArn
with the
Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that you obtained when you created your cluster. If you
don't
have the ARN for your cluster, you can find it by listing all clusters. For more information,
see Listing Amazon MSK clusters.
aws kafka get-bootstrap-brokers --cluster-arn
ClusterArn
The output of this command looks like the following JSON example.
{ "BootstrapBrokerStringTls": "b-3.exampleClusterName.abcde.c2.kafka.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:9094,b-1.exampleClusterName.abcde.c2.kafka.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:9094,b-2.exampleClusterName.abcde.c2.kafka.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:9094" }
Getting the bootstrap brokers using the API
To get the bootstrap brokers using the API, see GetBootstrapBrokers.