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Kafka - How to create topics for your Kafka cluster

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Learn how to create Kafka topics

Objective

Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed event streaming platform designed for real-time, large-scale data processing with high scalability, durability, and low latency.

This guide explains how to create Kafka topics via the OVHcloud Control Panel.

Requirements

OVHcloud Control Panel Access

  • Direct link:
  • Navigation path: Public Cloud > Select your project > Analytics

Instructions

Create Kafka topics

Topics can be seen as categories, allowing you to organize your Kafka records. Producers write to topics, and consumers read from topics.

To create Kafka topics, first go to the Topics tab then click on the Add a topic button:

Add a topic

In advanced configuration you can change the default value for the following parameters:

  • Minimum in-sync replica (2 by default)
  • Partitions (1 partition by default)
  • Replication (3 brokers by default)
  • Retention size in bytes (-1: no limitation by default)
  • Retention time in hours (-1: no limitation by default)
  • Deletion policy

Create a topic

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