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

The same scenario I faced after deleting the only topic I had created.

The way to solve it was put Kafka and Zookeeper down, updated Kafka settings (server.properties file) where I add the following setting

delete.topic.enable=true

saved file, turn Zookeeper and Kafka up and everything run as usual.