Exception during topic deletion when Kafka is hosted in Docker in Windows

Question

I host Kafka in Docker in Windows. Wurstmeister/Kafka docker image is used. Kafka data is stored in local Windows folder for persistency. Windows folder is mapped to Kafka docke

Answer 1

Deletion of topic fails due to Java's File.rename function. It works differently in some cases in Windows environment (for example if file is in use). Kafka developers already changed this function to Utils.atomicMoveWithFallback (see this issue for details), but seems it was not included into Kafka 2.11-0.11.0. So you need to work with Kafka version that has this fix. Hope this will helps.