title: Should Zookeeper be installed seperately for Kafka Manager?
body: <p>In Kafka-manager github <a href="https://github.com/yahoo/kafka-manager" rel="nofollow noreferrer">page</a> it is written that:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The minimum configuration is the zookeeper hosts which are to be used
    for kafka manager state. This can be found in the application.conf
    file in conf directory. The same file will be packaged in the
    distribution zip file; you may modify settings after unzipping the
    file on the desired server.</p>
    
    <p>kafka-manager.zkhosts="my.zookeeper.host.com:2181" You can specify
    multiple zookeeper hosts by comma delimiting them, like so:</p>
    
    <p>kafka-manager.zkhosts="my.zookeeper.host.com:2181,other.zookeeper.host.com:2181"
    Alternatively, use the environment variable ZK_HOSTS if you don't want
    to hardcode any values.</p>
    
    <p>ZK_HOSTS="my.zookeeper.host.com:2181"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>So my questions are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Does Kafka-manager already contain Zookeeper when I download it?</p></li>
  <li><p>Should I install Zookeeper for Kafka Manager seperately or use already installed Zookeeper used for Apache Kafka? </p></li>
  <li>How many Zookeper instances are required for Kafka-Manager?</li>
  <li>If I should install Zookeeper dedicated to Kafka-Manager, is it okey to install it in the same machine which Kafka-Manager installed or should I create another Zookeeper cluster in different machines?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I wonder what is the best practice?</p>