From the course: Apache Kafka Essential Training: Getting Started (2021)
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Creating a topic
From the course: Apache Kafka Essential Training: Getting Started (2021)
Creating a topic
- [Instructor] In this video, we will create two topics in Kafka. I will first explore the topic creation command first. It's available in the chapter-3-commands.txt file inside the Kafka getting started project. The script to use for creating topics, is the Kafkatopics.sh file. What are the parameters for the script? First, we need to provide the link to Zookeeper. Topics are stored and managed in Zookeeper, so the creation command needs that information. Then comes the action, which in this case is create. We need to provide the name of the topic, with the topic parameter. While the name can be any string, it's recommended to use a pattern of qualified names for better management. In this case it's a tweets topic called Kafka.learning.tweets. We then specify two mandatory parameters. The number of partitions and the replication factor. We keep a partition size of one. We will discuss partitions later in the course.…
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