Create a Kafka topic ¶

This guide will show you how to create a Kafka topic.

The fully qualified topic name is the name of the Topic resource prefixed with your team namespace:

<MY-TEAM>.<MY-TOPIC>

This name is also set in the .status.fullyQualifiedName field on your Topic resource once the Topic is synchronized to Aiven.

Creating topics ¶

apiVersion: kafka.nais.io/v1
kind: Topic
metadata:
  name: <MY-TOPIC>
  namespace: <MY-TEAM>
  labels:
    team: <MY-TEAM>
spec:
  pool: <MY-POOL>
  acl:
    - team: <MY-TEAM>
      application: <MY-APP>
      access: readwrite   # read, write, readwrite

Select a pool from one of the available pools.

See the Kafka topic reference for a complete list of available options.

Grant access to the topic for other applications (optional) ¶

See manage access for how to grant access to your topic.

Apply the Topic resource ¶

kubectl apply -f ./nais/topic.yaml --namespace=<MY-TEAM> --context=<MY-CLUSTER>