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Status

Current state: Under DiscussioDiscussion

Discussion thread: TBD

JIRA: 

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• There are security/operational risks where a rogue KStreams app might create unneeded/wrong/... topics. (One potential way to address this risk is to introduce a new quota feature for e.g. how many topics could be created by an application in order to control collateral damage of a rogue app); note current ACL may not be sufficient to secure the destination Kafka cluster of the Streams application since it only allows either a single wildcard or a full topic name.
• Even if the topics can be auto-created, downstream applications may would still be need to become aware of those topics. Because, by definition, (some of) the topics wouldn't exist at the time the downstream applications have been started themselves.

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