How to change the number of replicas of a Kafka topic?

Question

After a Kafka topic has been created by a producer or an administrator, how would you change the number of replicas of this topic?

Answer 1

This script may help you, if you want change replication factor for all topics:

#!/bin/bash

topics=`kafka-topics --list --zookeeper zookeeper:2181`

while read -r line; do lines+=("$line"); done <<<"$topics"
echo '{"version":1,
  "partitions":[' > tmp.json
for t in $topics; do 
    if [ "${t}" == "${lines[-1]}" ]; then
        echo "    {\"topic\":\"${t}\",\"partition\":0,\"replicas\":[0,1,2]}" >> tmp.json
    else
        echo "    {\"topic\":\"${t}\",\"partition\":0,\"replicas\":[0,1,2]}," >> tmp.json
    fi
done

echo '  ]
}' >> tmp.json

kafka-reassign-partitions --zookeeper zookeeper:2181 --reassignment-json-file tmp.json --execute