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CloudKarafka is a fully managed Apache Kafka streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice.
Start by signing up for a CloudKarafka account. Follow the in-product instructions to launch Kafka clusters within the CloudKarafka user interface.
Then, gather the connection points of your cluster.
Details > Using SASL/SCRAM
Run the following in a terminal:
docker run -e LENSES_PORT=8080 -p 8080:8080 lensesio/lenses
Wait for this message in the logs:
2021-12-16 18:17:04,322 INFO [i.l.b.r.HttpServer] [ioapp-compute-6] Lenses http server started and listening to requests.
Now your Lenses is up and running.
Head to http://localhost:8080.
Login as admin:
admin
On the wizard step 2 on Bootstrap Servers configuration add the endpoints from above, comma-separated. On our case it would be:
Bootstrap Servers
SASL_SSL://tricycle-01.srvs.cloudkafka.com:9094, SASL_SSL://tricycle-02.srvs.cloudkafka.com:9094, SASL_SSL://tricycle-03.srvs.cloudkafka.com:9094
Select SASL SSL from the Security Protocol options and in the SASL Mechanism choose SCRAM-SHA-256.
SASL SSL
Security Protocol
SASL Mechanism
SCRAM-SHA-256
On the JAAS Configuration below add the username and the password provided in the Connection details.
org.apache.kafka.common.security.scram.ScramLoginModule required username="[Your_Connection_Details_Username]" password="[Your_Connection_Details_Password]"
Click on Test Kafka Brokers. And you should get the message: Validation completed successfully.
Test Kafka Brokers
Validation completed successfully
Add your Lenses license. Copy and paste the JSON file you downloaded from your email. Lenses will check that the license is valid.
Click on Save & Boot Lenses. Lenses will finish configuring itself.
With CloudKarafka, these endpoints are only available in specific configurations:
Without these endpoints the below Lenses features are not available:
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