Creating and Deleting the Topics

How to Create and Delete Topic in Kafka using Ubuntu?

Learn how to create and delete the topics.

Please make sure that Zookeeper and Kafka server are running.

Getting Started

I) Creating Topics

kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --topic first_topic --create --partitions 3 --replication-factor 1

Check the list of topics created.

kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --list

Get more information on a specific Topic

kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --topic first_topic --describe

Creating a second Topic

kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --topic second_topic --create --partitions 6 --replication-factor 1

Deleting the topic

1. List all topics

→ kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --list

2. Delete the topic

kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --topic second_topic --delete

→ by default the delete.topic.enable is set true.

3. Verify the deletion

→ kafka-topics.sh — zookeeper 127.0.0.1:2181 --list

Summary: You have learned to Create and Delete the Topic.

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