Partition assignment

Route Kafka records to specific partition.

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K2K offers two ways to map source cluster topics to destination partitions:

Preserve Source Cluster Partition: Use the same partition as the source topic.
Kafka Producer-Based Routing: Use a producer configured routing strategy. Useful e.g when the target topic's partitions differ from the source to accommodate varying partition structures.

This guide covers these options to optimize your mapping strategy.

This tutorial assumes the following files exist (See Setting up for more details):

name: "my-first-replication"
features:
  autoCreateControlTopics: enabled
  autoCreateTopics: enabled
source:
  kafka:
    common:
      "bootstrap.servers": "kafka-source:9092"
    consumer:
      "group.id": "k2k.my-first-k2k"
target:
  kafka:
    common:
      "bootstrap.servers": "kafka-target:9092"
replication:
  - source:
      topic: ".*"
  - sink:
      topic: source
      partition: source

services:
  k2k:
    image: "lensesio/k2k:0.5.0"
    volumes:
      - ".:/pipelines"
    environment:
      OTEL_SERVICE_NAME: "k2k"
      OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER: none
      OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER: none
      OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER: none
      #LENSES_K2K_ACCEPT_EULA: true
    command:
      - k2k
      - start
      - -f
      - /pipelines/k2k-pipeline.yml
      - -t
  kafka-source:
    image: "apache/kafka:3.8.0"
    environment:
      KAFKA_NODE_ID: 1
      KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: broker,controller
      KAFKA_LISTENERS: INTERNAL://:9092,EXTERNAL://:9094,CONTROLLER://:9093
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: INTERNAL://kafka-source:9092,EXTERNAL://127.0.0.1:9094
      KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: INTERNAL
      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,INTERNAL:PLAINTEXT,EXTERNAL:PLAINTEXT
      KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
      KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@localhost:9093
      KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR: 1
      KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
      KAFKA_NUM_PARTITIONS: 3
    ports:
      - "9094:9094"
  kafka-target:
    image: "apache/kafka:3.8.0"
    environment:
      KAFKA_NODE_ID: 1
      KAFKA_PROCESS_ROLES: broker,controller
      KAFKA_LISTENERS: INTERNAL://:9092,EXTERNAL://:9099,CONTROLLER://:9093
      KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: INTERNAL://kafka-target:9092,EXTERNAL://127.0.0.1:9099
      KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME: INTERNAL
      KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: CONTROLLER:PLAINTEXT,INTERNAL:PLAINTEXT,EXTERNAL:PLAINTEXT
      KAFKA_CONTROLLER_LISTENER_NAMES: CONTROLLER
      KAFKA_CONTROLLER_QUORUM_VOTERS: 1@localhost:9093
      KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1
      KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR: 1
      KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0
      KAFKA_NUM_PARTITIONS: 3
    ports:
      - 9099:9099

To ensure a clean start, execute this command to reset any prior configurations from earlier tutorials.

docker compose down

Preserving the original topic partition

To retain the original record partition during copying, set the sink partition property to "source".


replication:
  - source:
     ...
  - sink:
      topic: source   
      partition: source

k2k-pipeline.yml

name: "my-first-replication"
features:
  autoCreateControlTopics: enabled
  autoCreateTopics: enabled
source:
  kafka:
    connection:
      servers: "kafka-source:9092"
    consumer:
      "group.id": "k2k.my-first-k2k"
target:
  kafka:
    connection:
      servers: "kafka-target:9092"
coordination:
  kafka:
    commit:
      group: "k2k.my-first-k2k"
replication:
  - source:
      topic: ".*"
  - sink:
      topic: source   
      partition: source

See it in action

#start two kafka instances
docker compose up -d kafka-source kafka-target

#create topic user-topic
docker compose exec kafka-source \
      ./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
      --create \
      --topic user-topic \
      --partitions 5 \
      --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092 
#create topic transaction-topic
docker compose exec kafka-source \
      ./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
      --create \
      --topic transaction-topic \
      --partitions 5 \
      --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092
#create topic transfers-eu      
docker compose exec kafka-source \
      ./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
      --create \
      --topic transfers-eu \
      --partitions 5 \
      --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092 
      
#create topic transfers-us
docker compose exec kafka-source \
      ./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
      --create \
      --topic transfers-us \
      --partitions 5 \
      --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092

docker compose up -d k2

docker compose exec kafka-target \
./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
--list \
--bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092

Producer defined partition

Another option is to write records using the producer's default partitioning strategy. If chosen, the Kafka Producer determines the target partition based on its configured partition assignment strategy.

Choose this configuration when replicating a topic with a different partition count than the target topic.

target:
  kafka:
    producer: 
      "partitioner.class": "org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RoundRobinPartitione"
replication:
  - source:
     ...
  - sink:
      topic: source   
      partition: producer

k2k-pipeline.yml

name: "my-first-replication"
features:
  autoCreateControlTopics: enabled
  autoCreateTopics: enabled
source:
  kafka:
    connection:
      servers: "kafka-source:9092"
    consumer:
      "group.id": "k2k.my-first-k2k"
target:
  kafka:
    connection:
      servers: "kafka-target:9092"
    producer:
       "partitioner.class": "org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RoundRobinPartitioner"
coordination:
  kafka:
    commit:
      group: "k2k.my-first-k2k"
replication:
  - source:
      topic: ".*"
  - sink:
      topic: source   
      partition: producer

See it in action

#start two kafka instances
docker compose up -d kafka-source kafka-target

#create topic user-topic
docker compose exec kafka-source \
      ./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
      --create \
      --topic user-topic \
      --partitions 5 \
      --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092 
#create topic transaction-topic
docker compose exec kafka-source \
      ./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
      --create \
      --topic transaction-topic \
      --partitions 5 \
      --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092
#create topic transfers-eu      
docker compose exec kafka-source \
      ./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
      --create \
      --topic transfers-eu \
      --partitions 5 \
      --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092 
      
#create topic transfers-us
docker compose exec kafka-source \
      ./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
      --create \
      --topic transfers-us \
      --partitions 5 \
      --bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092

docker compose up -d k2

docker compose exec kafka-target \
./opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh \
--list \
--bootstrap-server 127.0.0.1:9092

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