Produce data to Kafka topic
Learn how to produce data to a Kafka topic. To do this, you need to set the workload password, connect to a Kafka host, provide LDAP authentication, and finally produce data to a Kafka topic.
The applications that produce data to or consume data from Kafka can run on any of the servers in your network, provided they have connectivity to the Kafka cluster in CDP. These applications should not be executed on the hosts of the Kafka cluster, because this could affect the Kafka operation.
To produce data to a Kafka topic, you use the kafka-console-producer command
line application because the command line application is already installed on the Kafka hosts
and helps you to understand the application configuration without having to build an
application. In a later step you configure and run an application on a separate host to connect
to the cluster.
