Technology: topic-operator

ID	Title	Description	Category	Technology	Tags
CRE-2025-0025 Medium Impact: 6/10 Mitigation: 5/10	Kafka broker replication mismatch	When the configured replication factor for a Kafka topic is greater than the actual number of brokers in the cluster, Kafka repeatedly fails to assign partitions and logs replication-related errors. This results in persistent warnings or an `InvalidReplicationFactorException` when the broker tries to create internal or user-defined topics.	Message Queue Problems	topic-operator	Kafka Known Problem Public