Hi,

We want to automate some of the kafka management by

• deploying a few kafka-manager instances via automation (puppet etc)
• Each instance of kafka-manager is responsible for only a known set of kafka clusters (a bare bones compartmentalization)
• We also intend to disable the 'add cluster' feature so that our customers cannot modify the scope of a given kafka-manager (what clusters you can manage via that particular instance)

To achieve this, we also need to be able to prime (pre-populate) a kafka-manager instance with a set of kafka clusters' 'zkhost' lists. We intend to provide the list via the application conf (As a list of lists) and set that value in the conf during puppet install of the kafka-manager.

But I am struggling a bit to find a nice 'bootstrap' (Startup) point in the lifecycle of the kafka-manager app to insert a populate_kafka_clusters() method. May be because I am very new to Scala and Play. Can you please point me to such a location or if there is none, can it be added so that other such initializations can be added by others at that interception point? Also can you point me to the code that takes the 'zkhosts' for a cluster and adds them to the backend store (kafka-manager's Zookeeper namespace /kafka-manager I presume)