Confluent Cloud

This page describes configuring Lenses to connect to Confluent Cloud.

For Confluent Platform see Apache Kafka.

Only one Kafka connection is allowed.

The name must be kafka.

See JSON schema for support.

Environment variables are supported; escape the dollar sign

sslKeystorePassword:
  # In case environment variable has single or double quotes escape it with 
  ## "\${ENV_VAR_NAME}
  value: "${ENV_VAR_NAME}"

1

Create a Data Integration API key

• From Data integration API keys, select Create Key.

• For this guide select Global access to get your API Key and API Secret Key.

• Go to Cluster Settings to get your Bootstrap Server.

2

Configure Provisioning

Set the following in the provisioning.yaml

Environment variables are supported; escape the dollar sign

sslKeystorePassword:
  # In case environment variable has single or double quotes in string escape it with 
  ## "\${ENV_VAR_NAME}
  value: "${ENV_VAR_NAME}"

provisioning.yaml

kafka:
- name: kafka
  version: 1
  tags: ['my-tag']
  configuration:
    kafkaBootstrapServers:
      value:
        - SASL_SSL://[YOUR_BOOTSTRAP_SERVER]
        - SASL_SSL://[YOUR_BOOTSTRAP_SERVER]
    protocol: 
      value: SASL_SSL
    saslMechanism: 
      value: PLAIN
    saslJaasConfig:
      value: |
        org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required 
        username="[YOUR_API_KEY]" 
        password="[YOUR_API_KEY_SECRET]";