Affects
Teams that operate Kafka infrastructure for Lerian streaming producers.
What changed
Kafka-based producers using the documented event-streaming runtime attempt to create application fact and dead-letter topics on startup. Broker defaults choose partitions and replication unless you override them. Missing
CREATE permission or a broker error warns without blocking startup. Infrastructure-as-code deployments can opt out with STREAMING_TOPIC_AUTO_PROVISION=false. This records current runtime behavior; it does not announce a separate product release.
Impact
Classification: Review recommended.
What you need to do
1
Decide whether broker-managed defaults are acceptable. Pre-provision topics or set
STREAMING_TOPIC_AUTO_PROVISION=false when infrastructure-as-code owns topology.