# New blog: Creating topics with Kafka Connect

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/new-blog-creating-topics-with-kafka-connect/417>\
**Category:** Kafka Connect\
**Created:** [13 January 2021 06:14 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/new-blog-creating-topics-with-kafka-connect/417 "2021-01-13T06:14:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/rmoff/32/3_2.png) [@rmoff](https://forum.confluent.io/u/rmoff)\
**Post date:** [13 January 2021 06:14 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/new-blog-creating-topics-with-kafka-connect/417/1 "2021-01-13T06:14:23Z")

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When Kafka Connect ingests data from a source system into Kafka it writes it to a topic. If you have set auto.create.topics.enable = true on your broker then the topic will be created when written to. If auto.create.topics.enable = false (as it is on Confluent Cloud and many self-managed environments, for good reasons) then you can tell Kafka Connect to create those topics first. This was added in Apache Kafka 2.6 (Confluent Platform 6.0) - prior to that you had to manually create the topics yourself otherwise the connector would fail.

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**Read more:** [Creating topics with Kafka Connect](https://rmoff.net/2021/01/06/creating-topics-with-kafka-connect/)

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**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/rmoff/32/3_2.png) [@rmoff](https://forum.confluent.io/u/rmoff)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2021 13:29 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/new-blog-creating-topics-with-kafka-connect/417/2 "2021-02-09T13:29:18Z")

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