bootstrap-servers argument ignored

[gquintana]

No matter how I set bootstrap-servers, the settings is ignored:

--bootstrap-servers myhost.mycompany.fr:9094
--bootstrap-servers=myhost.mycompany.fr:9094

The admin client tries to connect to localhost:

Connection to node -1 (localhost/127.0.0.1:9092) could not be established. Broker may not be available.

2021-05-11 16:07:56,698 INFO  [main] org.apache.kafka.clients.admin.AdminClientConfig - AdminClientConfig values:
        bootstrap.servers = [localhost:9092]

The README.md (line 57) says (singular):

--bootstrap-server localhost:9092

The CLI help says (plural and equal sign):

--bootstrap-servers=<bootstrapServer>
                  A list of host/port pairs to use for establishing the initial

The trick was that --bootstrap-servers argument is ignored when placed before topics create command.

[gquintana]

Thanks