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Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud Resources

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Eric Cheatham
Eric Cheatham
Engineering
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This is a legacy platform changelog. The information reflected here may not represent current functionality and some links may be broken.

Apache Kafka is now available as a resource in Meroxa as a source or destination.

Meroxa supports two variations of Kafka as a resource:

  • Apache Kafka
  • Confluent Cloud You can start provisioning Apache Kafka via the Meroxa Dashboard or CLI. For Apache Kafka
$ meroxa resources create sourcedb --type kafka --url kafka+sasl+ssl://$KAFKA_USER:$KAFKA_PASS@<$BOOTSTRAP_SERVER>?sasl_mechanism=plain
For Confluent Cloud
$ meroxa resources create sourcedb --type confluentcloud --url kafka+sasl+ssl://$API_KEY:$API_SECRET@<$BOOTSTRAP_SERVER>?sasl_mechanism=plain

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