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title: Managing Clusters

Pulsar clusters consist of one or more Pulsar {% popover brokers %}, one or more {% popover BookKeeper %} servers (aka {% popover bookies %}), and a {% popover ZooKeeper %} cluster that provides configuration and coordination management.

Clusters can be managed via:

• The clusters command of the pulsar-admin tool
• The /admin/clusters endpoint of the admin REST API
• The clusters method of the {% javadoc PulsarAdmin admin org.apache.pulsar.client.admin.PulsarAdmin %} object in the Java API

Clusters resources

Provision

New clusters can be provisioned using the admin interface.

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pulsar-admin

You can provision a new cluster using the create subcommand. Here's an example:

$ pulsar-admin clusters create cluster-1 \
  --url http://my-cluster.org.com:8080 \
  --broker-url pulsar://my-cluster.org.com:6650

REST API

{% endpoint PUT /admin/clusters/:cluster %}

More info

Java

ClusterData clusterData = new ClusterData(
        serviceUrl,
        serviceUrlTls,
        brokerServiceUrl,
        brokerServiceUrlTls
);
admin.clusters().createCluster(clusterName, clusterData);

Initialize cluster metadata

When provision a new cluster, you need to initialize that cluster's metadata. When initializing cluster metadata, you need to specify all of the following:

• The name of the cluster
• The local ZooKeeper connection string for the cluster
• The global ZooKeeper connection string for the entire instance
• The web service URL for the cluster
• A broker service URL enabling interaction with the {% popover brokers %} in the cluster

You must initialize cluster metadata before starting up any brokers that will belong to the cluster.

{% include admonition.html type=“warning” title=“No cluster metadata initialization through the REST API or the Java admin API” content=' Unlike most other admin functions in Pulsar, cluster metadata initialization cannot be performed via the admin REST API or the admin Java client, as metadata initialization involves communicating with ZooKeeper directly. Instead, you can use the pulsar CLI tool, in particular the initialize-cluster-metadata command. ' %}

Here's an example cluster metadata initialization command:

bin/pulsar initialize-cluster-metadata \
  --cluster us-west \
  --zookeeper zk1.us-west.example.com:2181 \
  --global-zookeeper zk1.us-west.example.com:2184 \
  --web-service-url http://pulsar.us-west.example.com:8080/ \
  --web-service-url-tls https://pulsar.us-west.example.com:8443/ \
  --broker-service-url pulsar://pulsar.us-west.example.com:6650/ \
  --broker-service-url-tls pulsar+ssl://pulsar.us-west.example.com:6651/

You‘ll need to use --*-tls flags only if you’re using TLS authentication in your instance.

Get configuration

You can fetch the configuration for an existing cluster at any time.

pulsar-admin

Use the get subcommand and specify the name of the cluster. Here's an example:

$ pulsar-admin clusters get cluster-1
{
    "serviceUrl": "http://my-cluster.org.com:8080/",
    "serviceUrlTls": null,
    "brokerServiceUrl": "pulsar://my-cluster.org.com:6650/",
    "brokerServiceUrlTls": null
}

REST API

{% endpoint GET /admin/clusters/:cluster %}

More info

Java

admin.clusters().getCluster(clusterName);

Update

You can update the configuration for an existing cluster at any time.

pulsar-admin

Use the update subcommand and specify new configuration values using flags.

$ pulsar-admin clusters update cluster-1 \
  --url http://my-cluster.org.com:4081 \
  --broker-url pulsar://my-cluster.org.com:3350

REST

{% endpoint POST /admin/clusters/:cluster %}

More info

Java

ClusterData clusterData = new ClusterData(
        serviceUrl,
        serviceUrlTls,
        brokerServiceUrl,
        brokerServiceUrlTls
);
admin.clusters().updateCluster(clusterName, clusterData);

Delete

Clusters can be deleted from a Pulsar {% popover instance %}.

pulsar-admin

Use the delete subcommand and specify the name of the cluster.

$ pulsar-admin clusters delete cluster-1

REST API

{% endpoint DELETE /admin/clusters/:cluster %}

More info

Java

admin.clusters().deleteCluster(clusterName);

List

You can fetch a list of all clusters in a Pulsar {% popover instance %}.

pulsar-admin

Use the list subcommand.

$ pulsar-admin clusters list
cluster-1
cluster-2

REST API

{% endpoint GET /admin/clusters %}

More info

Java

admin.clusters().getClusters();