Setting up the Debezium Oracle Source connector

Learn about the CDP specific setup steps required before you can deploy the Debezium Oracle Source connector.

In CDP, before deploying an instance of the Debezium Oracle Source connector, you must download and deploy the Oracle JDBC driver on all Kafka Connect hosts. Otherwise, you will not be able to deploy the connector. The following list of steps walks you through this process.

For more information regarding how the Debezium Oracle Source connector works as well as its configuration and properties, see the Debezium Connector for Oracle in the Debezium documentation.

Download the Oracle JDBC driver.
The JDBC driver can be downloaded from Maven Central. Cloudera recommends that you use version 12.2.0.1, 19.8.0.0, or 21.1.0.0.
Copy and rename the driver to the location specified in the JDBC Driver Jars Path For Debezium Kafka property.
The default location is /var/lib/kafka_connect_jdbc. The JDBC driver must be renamed to oracle-connector-java.jar. For example:
```
cp ./ojdbc8-[***VERSION***].jar /var/lib/kafka_connect_jdbc/oracle-connector-java.jar
```

Set correct file permissions. For example:

chmod 644 /var/lib/kafka_connect_jdbc/oracle-connector-java.jar

The Oracle JDBC driver is deployed on all Kafka Connect hosts. Deploying an instance of the Debezium Oracle Source connector in your cluster is now possible.

Deploy an instance of the Debezium Oracle Source connector. Additionally, review Debezium Connector for Oracle in the Debezium documentation to learn more about the connector and its features.