Connector quick start demo: Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac

2022-04-01 Thread andrew davidson
Hi Liam Many thanks. I was able to get the file stream connector demo working. See the attached file for detail. Andy On 3/29/22, 5:27 PM, "Liam Clarke-Hutchinson" wrote: Hi Andrew, So if you've downloaded Apache Kafka, you can run a standalone connect instance using the bin/co

Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac

2022-04-01 Thread andrew davidson
Thanks for the heads up Andrew Andy On 3/29/22, 5:43 PM, "Andrew Otto" wrote: > And while a lot of the connector documentation is on the Confluent website, you can still use them with FOSS Kafka so long as you're in line with the Confluent Community Licence *Drive by unhelpful

Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac

2022-03-30 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
Thanks Andy, and glad I could help somewhat :) I'll start writing something up over the next week, and will share the link here for feedback :) Just a caveat, the Filestream Connector could be considered a security risk in a production environment given its direct access to the filesystem. Not tha

Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac

2022-03-30 Thread Tauzell, Dave
FOSS == Free Open Source Software From: andrew davidson Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 3:16 PM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac Thanks Liam. What is 'FOSS Kafka'? google did not find any useful defi

Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac

2022-03-30 Thread andrew davidson
Thanks Liam. What is 'FOSS Kafka'? google did not find any useful definitions A tutorial would be great! I would be happy to provide feed back https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/connect/filestream_connector.html looks really helpful. Your list of connectors is very helpful. I wonde

Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac

2022-03-29 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
Hi Andrew Otto (Andrew 2? :D ), Well noted. I should have worded it as "You don't need a Confluent subscription to use them" :) Cheers, Liam On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 13:49, Andrew Otto wrote: > > And while a lot of the connector documentation is on the Confluent > website, you can still use th

Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac

2022-03-29 Thread Andrew Otto
> And while a lot of the connector documentation is on the Confluent website, you can still use them with FOSS Kafka so long as you're in line with the Confluent Community Licence *Drive by unhelpful comment:* While this is true legally, the fact that (most?) actual connector implementations are C

Re: Newbie looking for a connector I can configure on my mac

2022-03-29 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
Hi Andrew, So if you've downloaded Apache Kafka, you can run a standalone connect instance using the bin/connect-standalone.sh script mentioned. And while a lot of the connector documentation is on the Confluent website, you can still use them with FOSS Kafka so long as you're in line with the Con