Kafka Connect – Externalizing Secrets – KIP 297 In order to connect with a data source or sink, we need to use credentials. Kafka Connect added support for specifying credential using config providers. The support for file config provider is available with the installation package. This is discussed in KIP 297. The KIP was released… Continue reading »
Kafka Connect – Single Message Transforms (SMTs) Single Message Transforms were released with 0.10.2 release [ Release notes ]. It provides us the ability to transform a message before they get in or out of a connector using Kafka Connect. Source Transforms Source connector can be configured with a list of transforms. These transforms are… Continue reading »
Custom Log4J Configuration file for Kafka In order to use a custom Log4J configuration file and to override the default one, we need to add the details in -Dlog4j.configuration. Here is how you can update the configuration path: As you can notice, we have also update the directory where logs are generated by overriding LOG_DIR.