Error creating Kafka Topics- Replication factor larger than available brokers

Question

I am trying to create topics in Kafka by following the guide on Apache Kafka website through command line. While running the command:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --c         


        

Answer 1

For those who are sure that the brokers are up and running, check your server.properties configuration.

In my case the znodes for kafka is /kafka as shown below.

zookeeper.connect=zk1.beta:2181,zk2.beta:2181,zk3.beta:2181/kafka

So, try the following command while creating topic:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper zk1.beta:2181/kafka --replication-factor 2 --partitions 2 --topic test2