Streaming

rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership

Transfer partition leadership between brokers.

You can transfer only one partition leader at a time.

Redpanda tries to balance leadership distribution across brokers by default. If the distribution of leaders becomes uneven as a result of transferring leadership across brokers, the cluster may move leadership back to the original brokers automatically.

Usage

rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership [flags]

Examples

Transfer partition leadership:

rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership foo --partition 0:2

The preceding example shows how to transfer leadership for the partition kafka/foo/0 to broker 2. By default, it uses the kafka namespace, but you can specify an internal namespace using the {namespace}/ prefix.

Equivalent command using different syntax:

rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership --partition foo/0:2

Flags

Value Type Description

--format

string

Output format. Possible values: json, yaml, text, wide, help. Default: text.

-h, --help

-

Help for transfer-leadership.

-p, --partition

string

The topic partition to which to transfer leadership and specify the new leader location. Syntax -p A:B where A is the partition leader and B will be the new leader. See Examples for how to use it.

--config

string

Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are /var/lib/redpanda/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml.

-X, --config-opt

stringArray

Override rpk configuration settings. See rpk -X or execute rpk -X help for inline detail or rpk -X list for terser detail.

--profile

string

Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details.

-v, --verbose

-

Enable verbose logging.