Chapter 4. Creating Kafka Topics
When you use a script, command, or API to create a topic, an entry is created under
ZooKeeper. The only user with access to ZooKeeper is the service account running Kafka (by
default, kafka). Therefore, the first step toward creating a Kafka topic on a
secure cluster is to run kinit, specifying the Kafka service keytab. The second
step is to create the topic.
Run
kinit, specifying the Kafka service keytab. For example:kinit -k -t /etc/security/keytabs/kafka.service.keytab kafka/c6401.ambari.apache.org@EXAMPLE.COMNext, create the topic. Run the
kafka-topics.shcommand-line tool with the following options:/bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper <hostname>:<port> --create --topic <topic-name> --partitions <number-of-partitions> --replication-factor <number-of-replicating-servers>For example:
/bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper c6401.ambari.apache.org:2181 --create --topic test_topic --partitions 2 --replication-factor 2 Created topic "test_topic".
For more information about
kafka-topics.shparameters, see Basic Kafka Operations on the Apache Kafka website.
Permissions
By default, permissions are set so that only the Kafka service user has access; no other
user can read or write to the new topic. In other words, if your Kafka server is running with
principal $KAFKA-USER, only that principal will be able to write to
ZooKeeper.
For information about adding permissions, see Authorizing Access when Kerberos is Enabled.