title: Kafka topic creation best-practice
body: <p><br/>
  Whats is considered best-practise when creating topics for Apache Kafka?<br/>Does everyone allow automatic creation of topics or how do you do it? Do you bundle the topic-creation-step with the starting of the kafka-instance?<br/></p>
  
  <p>I have a docker-based Kafka-installation which is gone be used by multiple applications. How can I keep the topic-creation for every application separate from the startup of the Kafka-container?. Looking at Confluents music-demo they create the topics by spinning up a new kafka-image, calling the "create-topic-script" and then leave the container to die. This feels abit "hacky" but maby its the only way?<br/><br/>
  Regards</p>