Hi, I am new to Kafka and Kafka-connect world. Getting connection refused error while creating Kafka-JDBC connector. Below are the steps followed from Kafka Connect Tutorial — Confluent Platformdocker run -d \ --net=host \ --name=zookeeper \ -e ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT=32181 \ -e ZOOKEEPER_TICK_TIME=2000 \ confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:latest docker run -d \ --net=host \ --name=kafka \ -e KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT=localhost:32181 \ -e KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS=PLAINTEXT://localhost:29092 \ -e KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR=1 \ confluentinc/cp-kafka:latest docker run -d \ --net=host \ --name=schema-registry \ -e SCHEMA_REGISTRY_KAFKASTORE_CONNECTION_URL=localhost:32181 \ -e SCHEMA_REGISTRY_HOST_NAME=localhost \ -e SCHEMA_REGISTRY_LISTENERS=http://localhost:8081 \ confluentinc/cp-schema-registry:latest
docker run -d \ --name=kafka-connect-avro \ --net=host \ -e CONNECT_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS=localhost:29092 \ -e CONNECT_REST_PORT=28083 \ -e CONNECT_GROUP_ID="quickstart-avro" \ -e CONNECT_CONFIG_STORAGE_TOPIC="quickstart-avro-config" \ -e CONNECT_OFFSET_STORAGE_TOPIC="quickstart-avro-offsets" \ -e CONNECT_STATUS_STORAGE_TOPIC="quickstart-avro-status" \ -e CONNECT_CONFIG_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR=1 \ -e CONNECT_OFFSET_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR=1 \ -e CONNECT_STATUS_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR=1 \ -e CONNECT_KEY_CONVERTER="io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter" \ -e CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER="io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter" \ -e CONNECT_KEY_CONVERTER_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL="http://localhost:8081" \ -e CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL="http://localhost:8081" \ -e CONNECT_INTERNAL_KEY_CONVERTER="org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter" \ -e CONNECT_INTERNAL_VALUE_CONVERTER="org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter" \ -e CONNECT_REST_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME="localhost" \ -e CONNECT_LOG4J_ROOT_LOGLEVEL=DEBUG \ -e CONNECT_LOG4J_LOGGERS=org.reflections=ERROR \ -e CONNECT_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/share/java,/etc/kafka-connect/jars \ -v /tmp/quickstart/file:/tmp/quickstart \ -v /tmp/quickstart/jars:/etc/kafka-connect/jars \ confluentinc/cp-kafka-connect:latest docker exec kafka-connect-avro mkdir -p /tmp/quickstart/jars docker exec kafka-connect-avro curl -k -SL "https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.39.tar.gz" | tar -xzf - -C /tmp/quickstart/jars --strip-components=1 mysql-connector-java-5.1.39/mysql-connector-java-5.1.39-bin.jar All above statements are executed without any issues. However below statement result in connection refused.curl -X POST \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "name": "quickstart-jdbc-source", "config": { "connector.class": "io.confluent.connect.jdbc.JdbcSourceConnector", "tasks.max": 1, "connection.url": "jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/connect_test?user=root&password=confluent", "mode": "incrementing", "incrementing.column.name": "id", "timestamp.column.name": "modified", "topic.prefix": "quickstart-jdbc-", "poll.interval.ms": 1000 } }' \ http://$CONNECT_HOST:28083/connectors Surly i am missing something. However unable to figure-it-out. Request you to review and advise Thanks and regrads. Jagannath S Bilgi