Confluent Cloud

This page describes configuring Lenses to connect to Confluent Cloud.

Lenses will not start without a valid Kafka Connection. You can either add the connection via the bootstrap wizard or use provisioning for automated deployments.

For Confluent Platform see Apache Kafka.

Create a Data integration API key

1. From Data integration API keys, select Create Key.

2. For this guide select Global access

Creating a Connection

In the Lenses bootstrap UI, Select:

1. Security Protocol SASL SSL

2. SASL Mechanism PLAIN

In the JAAS Configuration update the username and password from the respective fields Key and Secret of the API key created above:

org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required 
username="[Your_API_KEY]" 
password="[Your_API_KEY_SECRET]"