Setting up Standalone zookeeper cluster for production cluster

1.      Download the zookeeper from


a.      http://zookeeper.apache.org/releases.html#download or http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/zookeeper/



2.      The downloaded file will be Tar file so extract in your desired directory.

3.      Create Directory for Zookeeper snapshot logs



a.      mkdir -p datafiles <you can create this folder the path which you like>

b.      mkdir -p datalogfile  <you can create this folder the path which you like>



4.      Create a file “java.env” in Zookeeper_Home/conf directory



a.      Vim Zookeeper_home/conf/java.env

b.      Then write JAVA_HOME=<java path  here> in java.env

c.       Then export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH



5.      Then you will find “zoo_sample.cfg” file in zookeeper/conf folder copy it and make another file with name zoo.cfg



6.      Then edit this zoo.cfg file put 2 entries in this

a.      dataDir = <put the path which we have created in step 3(a)>

b.      dataLogDir = <put the path which we have created in step 3(b)>



7.      Copy all folder structure of Zookeepe_Home to all the client Machines.

8.      Then start the zookeeper at master node using bin/zkServer.sh start

9.      Connecting to running zookeeper we can use : bin/zkCli.sh –server masermachine:2281

10.  To Stop the zookeeper at master node using bin/zkServer.sh stop



@@@ Zookeeper_home  à the director in which zookeeper lies.