The new KAFKA_GROUP_INSTANCE_ID env variable can be set on journal clients to
set the group.instance.id enable support for Kafka Static Consumer Groups.
https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/pull/2525
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-345%3A+Introduce+static+membership+protocol+to+reduce+consumer+rebalances
Combined with larger values for the session.timeout.ms and max.poll.interval.ms
settings, this setting informs the Group Coordinator broker that the consumer
group has static membership, and that the disappearance of a given member of the
consumer group should not immediately trigger a rebalance; This allows crashing
consumers to re-join the consumer group and start consuming from their assigned
partitions immediately.
This setting is implemented as an environment variable so that several consumers
in the same group can share a configuration file, and still override the
value (e.g. by setting Environment=KAFKA_GROUP_INSTANCE_ID=groupname-%i in a
systemd template unit).