Hi All,
The zookeeper.connect is not needed for KafkaConsumer or KafkaAdminClient however Flink requires it. You can also see in the Flink TaskManager logs the KafkaConsumer is not recognizing this property anyways.
bsTableEnv.connect(
new Kafka()
.property("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092")
.property("zookeeper.connect", "localhost:2181")
2020-03-03 03:48:54,644 WARN org.apache.flink.kafka.shaded.org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig - The configuration 'zookeeper.connect' was supplied but isn't a known config.