Kafka and OpenJDK

Question

I have installed Apache Kafka with Java 8 and Oracle JDK. However my company is thinking to move to OpenJDK

Is there any issues or considerations to implement and use Kafka with OpenJDK?

Is there some documentation about this relationship (apache kafka<->OpenJDK).

Answer 1

Oracle JDK is recommended, but Zulu or OpenJDK will work fine for most purposes. OS shouldn't be a factor because Java is cross platform.

In fact, the Ansible Playbooks provided by Confluent will install OpenJDK as a prerequisite for Zookeeper and Kafka.

You might even be able to use Java 9 or 10 with the latest release 2.0 of Kafka, though I'm not sure if the same can be said for Zookeeper