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- NAME
- gcloud beta managed-kafka topics create - create a Managed Service for Apache Kafka topic
- SYNOPSIS
gcloud beta managed-kafka topics create(TOPIC:--cluster=CLUSTER--location=LOCATION)--partitions=PARTITIONS--replication-factor=REPLICATION_FACTOR[--configs=[KEY=VALUE,…]][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
- DESCRIPTION
(BETA)Create a Managed Service for Apache Kafka topic.- EXAMPLES
- To create a topic in a cluster named mycluster located in us-central1, run thefollowing:
gcloudbetamanaged-kafkatopicscreatemytopic--cluster=mycluster--location=us-central1--partitions=1--replication-factor=3 - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
- Topic resource - Identifies the name of the topic that this command creates. Thearguments in this group can be used to specify the attributes of this resource.(NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but can be set inother ways.
To set the
projectattribute:- provide the argument
topicon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--projecton the command line; - set the property
core/project.
This must be specified.
TOPIC- ID of the topic or fully qualified identifier for the topic.
To set the
topicattribute:- provide the argument
topicon the command line.
This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in thisgroup are specified.
- provide the argument
--cluster=CLUSTER- The cluster name.To set the
clusterattribute:- provide the argument
topicon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--clusteron the command line.
- provide the argument
--location=LOCATION- ID of the location of the Managed Service for Apache Kafka resource. Seehttps://cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/locationsfor a list of supported locations.To set the
locationattribute:- provide the argument
topicon the command line with a fullyspecified name; - provide the argument
--locationon the command line.
- provide the argument
- provide the argument
- Topic resource - Identifies the name of the topic that this command creates. Thearguments in this group can be used to specify the attributes of this resource.(NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but can be set inother ways.
- REQUIRED FLAGS
--partitions=PARTITIONS- The number of partitions in a topic. You can increase the partition count for atopic, but you cannot decrease it. Increasing partitions for a topic that uses akey might change how messages are distributed.
--replication-factor=REPLICATION_FACTOR- The number of replicas of each partition. A replication factor of 3 isrecommended for high availability.
- OPTIONAL FLAGS
--configs=[KEY=VALUE,…]- Configuration for the topic that are overridden from the cluster defaults. Thekey of the map is a Kafka topic property name, for example:
cleanup.policy=compact,compression.type=producer. Ifyou provide a map with a key that already exists, only that configuration isupdated. If the map contains a key that does not exist, the entry is appended tothe topic configuration.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$gcloud helpfor details. - API REFERENCE
- This command uses the
managedkafka/v1API. The full documentationfor this API can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. Thesevariants are also available:
gcloudmanaged-kafkatopicscreategcloudalphamanaged-kafkatopicscreate
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.