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Create connector - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

This procedure describes how to create a connector using the AWS Management Console.

To create the connector

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the Amazon MSK console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/msk/home?region=us-east-1#/home/.

  2. In the left pane, expand MSK Connect, then choose Connectors.

  3. Choose Create connector.

  4. In the list of plugins, choose mkc-tutorial-plugin, then choose Next.

  5. For the connector name enter mkc-tutorial-connector.

  6. In the list of clusters, choose mkc-tutorial-cluster.

  7. Copy the following configuration and paste it into the connector configuration field.

    Make sure that you replace region with the code of the AWS Region where you're creating the connector. Also, replace the Amazon S3 bucket name <amzn-s3-demo-bucket-my-tutorial> with the name of your bucket in the following example.

    connector.class=io.confluent.connect.s3.S3SinkConnector
s3.region=us-east-1
format.class=io.confluent.connect.s3.format.json.JsonFormat
flush.size=1
schema.compatibility=NONE
tasks.max=2
topics=mkc-tutorial-topic
partitioner.class=io.confluent.connect.storage.partitioner.DefaultPartitioner
storage.class=io.confluent.connect.s3.storage.S3Storage
s3.bucket.name=<amzn-s3-demo-bucket-my-tutorial>
topics.dir=tutorial

  8. Under Access permissions choose mkc-tutorial-role.

  9. Choose Next. On the Security page, choose Next again.

  10. On the Logs page choose Next.

  11. Under Review and create choose Create connector.

Next Step

Send data to the MSK cluster

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