Kafka Connect

Kafka Connect is a tool provided by Apache Kafka that enables easy integration of Kafka with external systems. It allows you to build and configure connectors to ingest data from various sources into Kafka and export data from Kafka to different sinks. This makes it a powerful tool for building data pipelines and integrating Kafka into your existing data infrastructure.

Using Kafka Connect

To use Kafka Connect, you need to configure and run connectors. A connector is a plugin that defines the logic for reading data from a source system or writing data to a target system. Kafka Connect provides various built-in connectors for popular systems like databases, file systems, and message queues. You can also develop your own custom connectors if needed.

Here is an example of a configuration file for a Kafka Connect source connector:

1name=my-source-connector
2tasks.max=1
3connector.class=org.apache.kafka.connect.jdbc.JdbcSourceConnector
4connection.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydatabase
5
6# Other source connector properties

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class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    // Replace with Kafka Connect code here

  }

}