Commands

Start Producer:
./kafka-console-producer --broker-list localhost:9095 --producer.config ../etc/kafka/^Coducer.properties  --topic test1    
   
Start Consumers:
./kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server localhost:9095 --consumer.config ../etc/kafka/consumer.properties --topic test1 --from-beginning
Create Topics
./kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 ^Ccreate --topic test1  --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1 

List topics:
 ./kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --list                                                              
delete topics:
./kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete --topic logs


Note: in order to delete the topics permanently , we need to enable the below property in server.properties.

# Switch to enable topic deletion or not, default value is false 

delete.topic.enable=true

Describe a topic: ./kafka-topics --describe --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic tibtopic2

alter a topic
/kafka-topics --alter --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic tibtopic2 --partitions 3