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List of required configuration parameters for the Kafka to S3 Avro ReadyFlow

When deploying the Kafka to S3 Avro ReadyFlow, you have to provide the following parameters. Use the information you collected in Prerequisites.

Table 1. Kafka to S3 Avro ReadyFlow configuration parameters
Parameter Name Description
CDP Workload User Specify the CDP machine user or workload user name that you want to use to authenticate to Kafka and the object store. Ensure this user has the appropriate access rights in Ranger for the Kafka topic and ID Broker for object store access.
CDP Workload User Password Specify the password of the CDP machine user or workload user you're using to authenticate against Kafka and the object store.
CDPEnvironment

DataFlow will use this parameter to auto-populate the Flow Deployment with Hadoop configuration files required to interact with S3.

DataFlow automatically adds all required configuration files to interact with Data Lake services. Unnecessary files that are added won't impact the deployment process.
CSV Delimiter If your source data is CSV, specify the delimiter here.
Data Input Format Specify the format of your input data.

Supported values are:

  • CSV
  • JSON
  • AVRO
Kafka Broker Endpoint Specify the Kafka bootstrap servers string as a comma separated list.
Kafka Consumer Group ID The name of the consumer group used for the the source topic you are consuming from.
Kafka Source Topic Specify a topic name that you want to read from.
S3 Bucket Specify the name of the S3 bucket you want to write to.

The full path will be constructed from:

s3a://#{S3 Bucket}/#{S3 Path}/${Kafka.topic}
S3 Bucket Region

Specify the AWS region in which your bucket was created.

Supported values are:

  • us-gov-west-1

  • us-gov-east-1

  • us-east-1

  • us-east-2

  • us-west-1

  • us-west-2

  • eu-west-1

  • eu-west-2

  • eu-west-3

  • eu-central-1

  • eu-north-1

  • eu-south-1

  • ap-east-1

  • ap-south-1

  • ap-southeast-1

  • ap-southeast-2

  • ap-northeast-1

  • ap-northeast-2

  • ap-northeast-3

  • sa-east-1

  • cn-north-1

  • cn-northwest-1

  • ca-central-1

  • me-south-1

  • af-south-1

  • us-iso-east-1

  • us-isob-east-1

  • us-iso-west-1
S3 Path Specify the path within the bucket where you want to write to without any leading characters.

The full path will be constructed from:

s3a://#{S3 Bucket}/#{S3 Path}/${Kafka.topic}
Schema Name Specify the schema name to be looked up in the Schema Registry for the source Kafka topic.
Schema Registry Hostname Specify the hostname of the Schema Registry you want to connect to. This must be the direct hostname of the Schema Registry itself, not the Knox Endpoint.