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Create Kafka credentials

Configure credentials for your Apache Kafka connection.

Before you begin

Role required: connection_admin or message_replication_admin

About this task

Configure connection and credential records for connecting to your local Apache Kafka environment.

  • The connection record contains the information required for making the connection to your local Kafka. Connection records are stored in the Kafka Connections [kafka_connection] table.
  • The credential record stores the authentication data required for the connection. Credential records are stored in the Kafka credentials [kafka_credentials] table.

After you've created both the connection record and the credential record, you can Create a Connection & Credential alias, which links your connection information and the credential data under a single name.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > IntegrationHub > Connections & Credentials > Credentials.

  2. Select New.

  3. On the form asking what type of credentials you would like to create, select Kafka credentials.

  4. On the Kafka credentials form, fill in the fields.

    For a description of the fields, see Kafka credentials fields.

  5. Select Submit.

What to do next

Configure a Kafka connection.

Parent Topic:Stream Connect Message Replication