Kafka Admin Operations - Part 1
Kafka Admin Operation - Part 1 This page covers basic operation of Kafka that an admin would need to perform. The basic operation as below Basic Operations Adding and removing topics You have the option of either adding topics manually or having them be created automatically when data is first published to a non-existent topic. If topics are auto-created then you may want to tune the default topic configurations used for auto-created topics. Topics are added and modified using the topic tool: > bin /kafka-topics .sh --bootstrap-server broker_host:port --create \ --topic my_topic_name \ --partitions 20 --replication-factor 3 --config x=y The replication factor controls how many servers will replicate each message that is written. If you have a replication factor of 3 then up to 2 servers can fail before you will lose access to your data. We recommend you use a replication...