What will happen if you try to produce a message to a non-existent topic in Confluent Cloud with auto topic creation disabled?

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Kafka - Kubernetes and Cloud Deployment

AThe producer will receive an error indicating the topic does not exist

BThe topic will be automatically created and the message sent

CThe message will be silently dropped

DThe producer will retry indefinitely until the topic exists

Step-by-Step Solution

Solution:

Step 1: Understand auto topic creation setting
If auto topic creation is disabled, Kafka will not create topics automatically.
Step 2: Predict behavior when topic is missing
Producer will get an error because the topic does not exist and cannot be created.
Final Answer:
The producer will receive an error indicating the topic does not exist -> Option A
Quick Check:
Auto topic creation off = error on missing topic [OK]

Quick Trick: No auto topic creation means error on missing topic [OK]

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