Configure a Kafka connection

Configure a connection to your Apache Kafka environment.

Before you begin

• Role required: connection_admin or message_replication_admin
• Create Kafka SSL credentials.

About this task

Configure connection and credential records for connecting to your local Apache Kafka environment.

• The connection record contains the information required for making the connection to your local Kafka. Connection records are stored in the Kafka Connections [kafka_connection] table.
• The credential record stores the authentication data required for the connection. Credential records are stored in the Kafka SSL credentials [kafka_ssl_credentials] table.

After you've created both the connection record and the credential record, you can Create a Connection & Credential alias, which links your connection information and the credential data under a single name.

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > IntegrationHub > Connections & Credentials > Connections.
2. Select New.
3. On the form asking what type of connection you would like to create, select Kafka Connection.
4. On the Kafka Connection form, fill in the fields.

   Table 1. Kafka Connection form

   Name	Name for the connection.
   Credential	Name of the credential used to authorize this connection.
   Application	Application scope for the message replication. This field is automatically set.
   Active	Option to activate the connection.
   Connection alias	Name of the connection alias to associate with this connection.
   Bootstrap servers	Comma-separated list in the format HOST:PORT,HOST:PORT. The list doesn't need to include all of the Apache Kafka cluster servers.
   Consumer group id	Kafka consumer group.id. If not provided, the value is created with the format {instance_name}-consumer-{kafka_connection.sys_id}
   Additional client properties	Any additional client properties that should be specified when connecting to Kafka. For a full list and description of the available properties, see the Kafka documentation at https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/.
   Use MID Server	Option to use a MID Server. This field is automatically selected.
   Advanced MID Server Configuration
   MID Selection	Option to select the specific MID Server or MID Cluster. This field is automatically set to Specific MID Server.
   MID Server	Name of the MID Server to use.

5. Select Submit.

What to do next

Create a Connection & Credential alias with a Connection type of Kafka.