What Is Zookeeper Client

ZooKeeper is a distributed configuration and synchronization service for large distributed systems. ZooKeeper’s architecture supports high availability through redundant services.

What is ZooKeeper used for?

What is ZooKeeper? ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.

How do I start a ZooKeeper client?

In order to perform ZooKeeper CLI operations, at very first we have to turn on our ZooKeeper server (“bin/zkServer.sh start”). Afterward, we will also turn on ZooKeeper client (“bin/zkCli.sh”). Hence, we can perform the following operation, once the client starts: Create znodes.

Alexander Ross

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