🚀 New issue to ag2ai/faststream by @dzeveloper
📝 Feature: Consumer-Only Mode for KafkaBroker (#2879)


When deploying a subscriber-only service, it's common to provision Kafka credentials scoped strictly to READ + DESCRIBE ACLs on specific topics. Today, KafkaBroker always starts a producer during broker.start(), regardless of whether any @broker.publisher is registered. This causes the producer to attempt a connection using consumer-only credentials, which fails or raises errors at the broker/ACL level.

Proposal:

# Option A: broker-level flag
broker = KafkaBroker("localhost:9092", consumer_only=True)

# Option B: skip producer if no publishers are registered (automatic)
# No API change needed — broker inspects registered publishers at start()

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