Why is kafka not creating a topic? bootstrap-server is not a recognized option

Question

I am new to Kafka and trying to create a new topic on my local machine.

I am following this link.

Here are the steps which i followed:

1. Start

Answer 1

If you use version older than 2.2 you should use --zookeeper option and pass connection string to zookeeper

Command would be something like that:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test