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rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership

Transfer partition leadership between brokers.

This command allows you to transfer partition leadership. You can transfer only one partition leader at a time.

To transfer partition leadership, use the following syntax: rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership foo --partition 0:2.

Here, the command transfers leadership for the partition kafka/foo/0 to broker 2. By default, it assumes the kafka namespace, but you can specify an internal namespace using the {namespace}/ prefix.

Here is an equivalent command using different syntax: rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership --partition foo/0:2.

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

This section provides examples of how to use rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership.

To transfer partition leadership for a partition 0 to a broker ID 2, run.

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

The --partition flag accepts a value <A>:<B>, where A is a topic-partition and B is the ID of the broker to which you want to transfer leadership. To specify a topic-partition, you can use just the partition ID (0) or also use the topic name together with the partition using the following syntax.

rpk cluster partitions transfer-leadership --partition test-topic/0:2

Flags

Value Type Description

--format

string

Output format (json,yaml,text,wide,help).

-p, --partition

string

Topic-partition and target leader in the format <partition>:<broker-id>, for example 0:2 or test-topic/0:2. Use the <namespace>/ prefix for internal namespaces.

Global flags

Value Type Description

--config

string

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

-X, --config-opt

stringArray

Override rpk configuration settings; -X help for detail or -X list for terser detail.

--ignore-profile

bool

Ignore rpk.yaml and redpanda.yaml; use default settings.

--profile

string

rpk profile to use.

-v, --verbose

bool

Enable verbose logging.