In Kafka 0.7, topics and partitions are dynamic in the sense that a partition is created when the broker receives the first message for that partition. In Kafka 0.8, there are 2 ways of creating a new topic - 1. Turn on auto.create.topics.enable option on the broker. When the broker receives the first message for a new topic, it creates that topic with num.partitions and default.replication.factor. 2. Use the admin command bin/kafka-create-topic.sh
Thanks, Neha On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:23 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking at the kafka server.properties that is in /config folder and > didn't find any reference to topics or partitions. > > Are topics and optionally partitions dynamic in nature or do they have to > be defined before starting the broker? (and consequently producers can't > send to a topic and partition that isn't predefined). >
