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= Cruise Control for cluster rebalancing

You can deploy {CruiseControlProject} to your Strimzi cluster and use it to _rebalance_ the Kafka cluster. 

Cruise Control is an open source system for automating Kafka operations, such as monitoring cluster workload, rebalancing a cluster based on predefined constraints, and detecting and fixing anomalies. 
It consists of four main components--the Load Monitor, the Analyzer, the Anomaly Detector, and the Executor--and a REST API for client interactions.
Strimzi utilizes the REST API to support the following Cruise Control features:

* Generating _optimization proposals_ from multiple _optimization goals_. 

* Rebalancing a Kafka cluster based on an optimization proposal.

Other Cruise Control features are not currently supported, including anomaly detection, notifications, write-your-own goals, and changing the topic replication factor.

Example YAML files for Cruise Control are provided in `examples/cruise-control/`.

include::../../modules/cruise-control/con-cruise-control-overview.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/con-optimization-goals.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/con-optimization-proposals.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/con-rebalance-performance.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/ref-cruise-control-configuration.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/proc-deploying-cruise-control.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/proc-generating-optimization-proposals.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/proc-approving-optimization-proposal.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/proc-stopping-cluster-rebalance.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/cruise-control/proc-fixing-problems-with-kafkarebalance.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
