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.
From Data integration API keys, select Create Key.
For this guide select Global access
In the Lenses bootstrap UI, Select:
Security Protocol SASL SSL
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]"