Hi all, Julius here. I started looking into Pinot a couple of days ago and have got it up and running on minkube using the helm charts. Not without a bit of a struggle though. I filed an issue (https://github.com/apache/pinot/issues/9606). I'll give it a try to create a PR for someone to review later on. However, I'm curious about the setup. If I already have a Kafka echo system up and running do I need to setup a new one for Pinot as well? Seems a bit unnecessary to setup more than one Zookeeper, for instance. Is it possible to "re-use" existing infrastructure?

generally from what i saw how others use pinot, pinot's zookeeper are independent from the kafka zookeeper. however it is definitely possible to configure them to reuse the same zk service.