Hi, For this version of kafka-2.0.0 the file topic is empty, so don't work also the first example "QUIKSTART"
Step 3: Create A Topic Let's create a topic named "test" with a single partition and only one replica: 1 > bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test We can now see that topic if we run the list topic command: 1 2 > bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181 test Alternatively, instead of manually creating topics you can also configure your brokers to auto-create topics when a non-existent topic is published to. On the link: https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart Regards;