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Status

Current state: under discussion accepted
Discussion thread: here
JIRA: KAKFA-3265

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Motivation

Systems that interface with Kafka, such as management systems and proxies, often need to perform administrative actions.  For example, they might need to be able to create or delete topics.  Currently, they can't do this without relying on internal Kafka classes, or shell scripts distributed with Kafka.  We would like to add a public, stable AdminClient API that exposes this functionality to JVM-based clients in a well-supported way.

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