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kafka cannot start in mimir charts with this error "Invalid value for configuration broker.id"

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#13,708 opened on Nov 29, 2025

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This is my part of the value file. i am trying to deploy Mimir on OpenShift. but i get an error on kafka pod:

│ Exception in thread "main" org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigException: Invalid value for configuration broker.id: Not a number of type INT at org.apache.kafka.common.conf │
│ ig.ConfigDef.parseType(ConfigDef.java:776) at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.parseValue(ConfigDef.java:531) at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.parse(Config │
│ Def.java:524) at org.apache.kafka.common.config.AbstractConfig.<init>(AbstractConfig.java:114) at org.apache.kafka.server.config.AbstractKafkaConfig.<init>(AbstractKafkaConfi │
│ g.java:78) at kafka.server.KafkaConfig.<init>(KafkaConfig.scala:156) at kafka.server.KafkaConfig.<init>(KafkaConfig.scala:158) at kafka.tools.StorageTool$.$anonfun$execute$1( │
│ StorageTool.scala:79) at scala.Option.flatMap(Option.scala:283) at kafka.tools.StorageTool$.execute(StorageTool.scala:79) at kafka.tools.StorageTool$.main(StorageTool.scala:4 │
│ 6) at kafka.docker.KafkaDockerWrapper$.main(KafkaDockerWrapper.scala:57) at kafka.docker.KafkaDockerWrapper.main(KafkaDockerWrapper.scala) at java.base@21.0.2/java.lang.invok │
│ e.LambdaForm$DMH/sa346b79c.invokeStaticInit(LambdaForm$DMH)
# other config
kafka:
  enabled: true
  replicas: 3

  persistence:
    enabled: true
    size: 10Gi
    storageClass: "ceph-rbd"

  resources:
    limits:
      cpu: 1000m
      memory: 2Gi
    requests:
      cpu: 500m
      memory: 1Gi

  securityContext:
    fsGroup: null
    runAsUser: null
    runAsGroup: null
    runAsNonRoot: true
    seccompProfile:
      type: RuntimeDefault

  # Container security context
  containerSecurityContext:
    allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
    readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
    capabilities:
      drop: [ ALL ]
# other config

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