Deploy Standalone Cruise Control

This page explains how to deploy standalone Cruise Control: extract binaries, update Kafka metrics settings, edit config files, and start or stop the service.

Steps to Deploy

1. Extract binaries: Download and unpack the Cruise Control distribution.

$ tar -xzf cruise-control3-2.5.137.3.3.6.2-1.tar.gz
$ cd cruise-control

1. Update Kafka configurations: Enable the Cruise Control metrics reporting in Kafka by adding the following details.

metric.reporters=com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.metricsreporter.CruiseControlMetricsReporter
cruise.control.metrics.topic.auto.create=true
auto.create.topics.enable=true

1. Configure Cruise Control: All the Cruise Control configurations are under config/.

brokerSets.json
capacity.json
capacityCores.json
capacityJBOD.json
clusterConfigs.json
cruise_control_jaas.conf_template
cruisecontrol.properties
log4j.properties
Update these files to reflect your cluster environment.

1. Start Cruise Control: Run Cruise Control using the command below.

$ ./kafka-cruise-control-start.sh config/cruisecontrol.properties

1. Stop Cruise Control: Stop the service using the command below.

$ ./kafka-cruise-control-stop.sh