Delete Kafka topic and data¶

Warning

Permanent deletes are irreversible. Do this only as a step to completely remove your data.

When you want to delete a Kafka topic and it's data, the Topic resource in Nais needs to be annotated.

Enable data deletion¶

Start with annotating the Topic resource with kafka.nais.io/removeDataWhenResourceIsDeleted=true using kubectl annotate.

kubectl annotate topic <TOPIC> --namespace=<MY-TEAM> --context=<MY-CLUSTER> kafka.nais.io/removeDataWhenResourceIsDeleted=true

When this annotation is in place, deleting the topic resource from Kubernetes will also delete the Kafka topic and all of its data.

kubectl delete topic <TOPIC> --namespace=<MY-TEAM> --context=<MY-CLUSTER>

Remember to delete the Topic resource from your Git repository.