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kafka_topic

Manage Kafka topics.

Create and delete Kafka topics with configurable partitions, replication factor, and topic-level configuration. Useful for streaming infrastructure management, event-driven architectures, and data pipeline automation.

Attributes

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  support: full

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Type	Values
bootstrap_servers		string
config		object
name	true	string
partitions		integer
replication_factor		integer
state		string	present absent

Examples

- name: Create a topic
  kafka_topic:
    name: events
    partitions: 3
    replication_factor: 2
    config:
      retention.ms: "604800000"
    state: present

- name: Delete a topic
  kafka_topic:
    name: old_topic
    state: absent

- name: Create topic with custom bootstrap servers
  kafka_topic:
    name: my-topic
    partitions: 6
    replication_factor: 3
    bootstrap_servers: kafka1:9092,kafka2:9092
    state: present