IBM Event Streams

This page describes how to connect Lenses to IBM Event Streams.

IBM Event Streams requires a replication factor of 3. Ensure you set the replication factor accordingly for Lenses internal topics.

See Configuration.

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

Find your bootstrap endpoints

From the IBM Cloud console, locate your bootstrap_endpoints, for the service credentials you want to connect with.

2

Configure Provisioning

Set the following in the provisioning.yaml:

Use "token" as the username in the Jaas Config. Set the password as your API KEY from IBM Event streams

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}"

provisioning.yaml

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