diff --git a/events-kube/topic-create.yaml b/events-kube/topic-create.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ee0d592d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/events-kube/topic-create.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: topic-create-event-kube
+  namespace: kafka
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: topic-create
+        image: solsson/kafka:2.1.0@sha256:ac3f06d87d45c7be727863f31e79fbfdcb9c610b51ba9cf03c75a95d602f15e1
+        command:
+        - ./bin/kafka-topics.sh
+        - --zookeeper
+        -   zookeeper.kafka.svc.cluster.local:2181
+        - --create
+        - --if-not-exists
+        - --topic
+        -   ops.kube-events.stream.json
+        - --partitions
+        -   "12"
+        - --replication-factor
+        -   "2"
+        resources:
+          limits:
+            cpu: 200m
+            memory: 100Mi
+      restartPolicy: Never
diff --git a/kafka/10broker-config.yml b/kafka/10broker-config.yml
index c26ef450..16e8ce4a 100644
--- a/kafka/10broker-config.yml
+++ b/kafka/10broker-config.yml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ data:
 
     min.insync.replicas=2
 
-    auto.create.topics.enable=true
+    auto.create.topics.enable=false
 
     # The number of threads per data directory to be used for log recovery at startup and flushing at shutdown.
     # This value is recommended to be increased for installations with data dirs located in RAID array.