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.

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:
  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]";