This is a Terraform provider for managing Kafka topics with Terraform.

Why use this Kafka provider?

• Supports adding partitions and altering configs
• Supports TLS/SASL
• Uses Kafka's new admin APIs rather than shelling out to old bash scripts

1. Download the latest compiled binary from GitHub releases.

2. Unzip/untar the archive.

3. Move it into $HOME/.terraform.d/plugins:

   $ mkdir -p $HOME/.terraform.d/plugins
   $ mv terraform-provider-kafka $HOME/.terraform.d/plugins/terraform-provider-kafka

4. Create your Terraform configurations as normal, and run terraform init:

   $ terraform init

   This will find the plugin locally.

1. Create a Terraform configuration file:

   provider "kafka" {
   	hosts = ["localhost:9092"]
   }
   
   resource "kafka_topic" "example" {
   	name: "example"
   	num_partitions: "8"
   	replication_factor: "1"
   	config_entries: {
   		retention.bytes: "102400"
   		cleanup.policy: "compact
   	}
   }

   There's parameters to set if you use TLS/SASL.

2. Run terraform init to pull in the provider:

   $ terraform init

3. Run terraform plan and terraform apply to interact with the filesystem:

   $ terraform plan
   
   $ terraform apply

This provider supports importing externally created topics by their name. Assuming you've already created a topic declaration like the one above, you can get Terraform to manage the state of the existing topic:

$ terraform import kafka_topic.example example

For more examples, please see the examples folder in this repository.

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