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

For kafka version 0.10.0.0 it is enough to enable the topic deletion by setting:

delete.topic.enable

The topic is deleted within few moments

kafka-topics --delete --zookeeper your-zk:2181 --topic yourTopicName

You can confirm that it is gone with the following command:

kafka-topics --describe --zookeeper your-zk:2181 --topic yourTopicName