cerner/cerner_kafka — pull request #6 by pradeepbhadani (2014-10-29 14:41:03+00:00)
Title: Add kafka service stdout and stderr AND Check zookeeper status

We tried this cookbook on our small VM(less than 4GB) which were failing silently due to default memory size issue and could not figure why they were failing. My Solution was redirecting kafka service output to a specific file So I could debug issue. Having the two attributes helps to mitigate situation like this in future .
I created the recipe outside the default to check the status of Zookeeper as Kafka require Zookeeper to be in running state.