Confluent Cloud EARLY ACCESS

This tutorial describes how to configure a YugabyteDB connector to publish changes to Confluent Cloud, and assumes some familiarity with Docker and YAML files.

Architecture of YugabyteDB to Confluent Cloud pipeline

Configure a Confluent Cloud cluster

Set up a Confluent Cloud cluster on the provider of your choice. For more information, refer to Manage Kafka Clusters on Confluent Cloud in the Confluent documentation.

Download the credentials

Create an API key for your Confluent cluster and save it. Refer to Use API Keys to Control Access in Confluent Cloud for instructions.

Create custom Kafka Connect image with YugabyteDB connector

To create a Kafka Connect image with the YugabyteDB connector, start with the Confluent Server Docker Image for Kafka Connect.

Create a directory which will be used to store all related files.
```
mkdir kafka-connect-ccloud && cd kafka-connect-ccloud
```

Download the YugabyteDB connector jar.

curl -so debezium-connector-yugabytedb-1.9.5.y.22.jar https://github.com/yugabyte/debezium-connector-yugabytedb/releases/download/v1.9.5.y.22/debezium-connector-yugabytedb-1.9.5.y.22.jar

Create a Dockerfile with the following contents:

FROM confluentinc/cp-server-connect:7.4.0
ADD debezium-connector-yugabytedb-1.9.5.y.22.jar /usr/share/java/kafka/
USER 1001

To build the image, execute the following command:
```
docker build . -t custom-connect:latest
```

Create a docker-compose.yaml file with the following contents:

version: '3'
services:
  kafka-CCLOUD-BROKER-ENDPOINT.:latest
    container_name: kafka-connect-ccloud
    ports:
      - 8083:8083
    environment:
      CONNECT_LOG4J_APPENDER_STDOUT_LAYOUT_CONVERSIONPATTERN: "[%d] %p %X{connector.context}%m (%c:%L)%n"
      CONNECT_CUB_KAFKA_TIMEOUT: 300
      CONNECT_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS: "CCLOUD-BROKER-ENDPOINT.confluent.cloud:9092"
      CONNECT_REST_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME: 'kafka-connect-ccloud'
      CONNECT_REST_PORT: 8083
      CONNECT_GROUP_ID: kafka-connect-group-01-v04
      CONNECT_CONFIG_STORAGE_TOPIC: kafka-connect-configs
      CONNECT_OFFSET_STORAGE_TOPIC: kafka-connect-offsets
      CONNECT_STATUS_STORAGE_TOPIC: kafka-connect-status
      CONNECT_KEY_CONVERTER: org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
      CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER: org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter
      CONNECT_LOG4J_ROOT_LOGLEVEL: 'INFO'
      CONNECT_LOG4J_LOGGERS: 'org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.rest=WARN,org.reflections=ERROR'
      CONNECT_CONFIG_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR: '3'
      CONNECT_OFFSET_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR: '3'
      CONNECT_STATUS_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR: '3'
      CONNECT_PLUGIN_PATH: '/usr/share/java,/usr/share/confluent-hub-components/,/usr/share/java/kafka/'
      # Confluent Cloud config
      CONNECT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS: "20000"
      CONNECT_RETRY_BACKOFF_MS: "500"
      CONNECT_SSL_ENDPOINT_IDENTIFICATION_ALGORITHM: "https"
      CONNECT_SASL_MECHANISM: "PLAIN"
      CONNECT_SECURITY_PROTOCOL: "SASL_SSL"
      CONNECT_SASL_JAAS_CONFIG: "org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username='CCLOUD_USER' password='CCLOUD_PASSWORD';"
      #
      CONNECT_CONSUMER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL: "SASL_SSL"
      CONNECT_CONSUMER_SSL_ENDPOINT_IDENTIFICATION_ALGORITHM: "https"
      CONNECT_CONSUMER_SASL_MECHANISM: "PLAIN"
      CONNECT_CONSUMER_SASL_JAAS_CONFIG: "org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username='CCLOUD_USER' password='CCLOUD_PASSWORD';"
      CONNECT_CONSUMER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS: "20000"
      CONNECT_CONSUMER_RETRY_BACKOFF_MS: "500"
      #
      CONNECT_PRODUCER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL: "SASL_SSL"
      CONNECT_PRODUCER_SSL_ENDPOINT_IDENTIFICATION_ALGORITHM: "https"
      CONNECT_PRODUCER_SASL_MECHANISM: "PLAIN"
      CONNECT_PRODUCER_SASL_JAAS_CONFIG: "org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username='CCLOUD_USER' password='CCLOUD_PASSWORD';"
      CONNECT_PRODUCER_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS: "20000"
      CONNECT_PRODUCER_RETRY_BACKOFF_MS: "500"
    command:
      - bash
      - -c
      - |
        echo "Launching Kafka Connect worker"
        /etc/confluent/docker/run &
        #
        echo "Waiting for Kafka Connect to start listening on localhost:8083 ⏳"
        while : ; do
            curl_status=$$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w %{http_code} http://localhost:8083/connectors)
            echo -e $$(date) " Kafka Connect listener HTTP state: " $$curl_status " (waiting for 200)"
            if [ $$curl_status -eq 200 ] ; then
            break
            fi
            sleep 5
        done
        #
        sleep infinity

Using Schema Registry

If the configuration is such that it needs schema registry as well, then you need to add the following environment variables to the Docker compose file:

CONNECT_KEY_CONVERTER: io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter
CONNECT_KEY_CONVERTER_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL: "https://SCHEMA-RGISTRY-CCLOUD-ENDPOINT.confluent.cloud"
CONNECT_KEY_CONVERTER_BASIC_AUTH_CREDENTIALS_SOURCE: "USER_INFO"
CONNECT_KEY_CONVERTER_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_BASIC_AUTH_USER_INFO: "SCHEMA_REGISTRY_USER:SCHEMA_REGISTRY_PASSWORD"
CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER: io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter
CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL: "https://SCHEMA-REGISTRY-CCLOUD-ENDPOINT.confluent.cloud"
CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER_BASIC_AUTH_CREDENTIALS_SOURCE: "USER_INFO"
CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_BASIC_AUTH_USER_INFO: "SCHEMA_REGISTRY_USER:SCHEMA_REGISTRY_PASSWORD"

Using authentication and authorization

To configure authentication, follow the instructions in Configure Authentication for Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.
To configure authorization, follow the instructions in Configure Authorization for Confluent Platform with Ansible Playbooks.

Start the Kafka Connect cluster:
```
docker-compose up
```
Deploy the connector. For more information, refer to Deployment.