Two consumer groups for same topic . One with subscribe and other with manual assignment

[venkata sastry akella <ak...@gmail.com>]

Hi
Can I have a one consumer group with automatic subcription and one group
with manual assignment of partitions.  To explain the scenario more,  have
a topic1 and several consumer processes are using group1 and each of the
consumers in the groups got partitions assigned automatically by kafka.
For same topic, in some other process can I create a consumer with group2
and assign the partitions manually ? Is this manual assignment in group2 is
going to interfere with group1 consumers ?

Re: Two consumer groups for same topic . One with subscribe and other with manual assignment

["Matthias J. Sax" <ma...@confluent.io>]

It will not interfere. And this is independent of manual partition
assignment or topic subscription. If you have different consumer
group-ids it's independent of each other.



-Matthias

On 7/12/17 11:21 PM, venkata sastry akella wrote:
> Hi
> Can I have a one consumer group with automatic subcription and one group
> with manual assignment of partitions.  To explain the scenario more,  have
> a topic1 and several consumer processes are using group1 and each of the
> consumers in the groups got partitions assigned automatically by kafka.
> For same topic, in some other process can I create a consumer with group2
> and assign the partitions manually ? Is this manual assignment in group2 is
> going to interfere with group1 consumers ?
>