When/how does a topic “marked for deletion” get finally removed?

Question

I have issued the command to delete a topic:

./bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete --topic  vip_ips_alerts

It seemed to

Answer 1

In my case where i am using Kafka 8.2.2, I had to delete entries from the following manually -

1. Delete topic folder from Kafka broker machine.

2. Login to zookeeper and -

   hbase zkcli
   rmr /brokers/topics/{topic_name}
   rmr /admin/delete_topics/{topic_name}