confluentinc/cp-kafka-connect repository overview

⁠Confluent Docker Image for Kafka Connect

Docker image for deploying and running Kafka Connect.

Functionally, the cp-kafka-connect and the cp-kafka-connect-base images are identical. Prior to Confluent Platform 6.0 the cp-kafka-connect image included several connectors pre-installed, but this is no longer the case.

⁠What is Kafka Connect?

Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka, and is used to integrate external systems with Kafka. You can find out more in the documentation⁠ and this short video⁠.

⁠Using the image

Please see the Confluent Platform documentation⁠ for further documentation on these images.

⁠Installing connectors

Kafka Connect is a pluggable framework with which you can use plugins for different connectors, transformations, and converters. You can find hundreds of these at Confluent Hub⁠.

You will need to install plugins into the image in order to use them. This can be done in several ways:

1. Extend the image⁠
2. Add the connector JARs via volumes mounted to the image (example⁠)
3. Install the connector JARs at runtime (example⁠)

⁠Configuration

Reference⁠

⁠Contribute

Start by reading our guidelines on contributing to this project found here.

• Source Code: https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-images⁠
• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-images/issues⁠

⁠License

Usage of this image is subject to the license terms of the software contained within. Please refer to Confluent's Docker images documentation reference⁠ for further information. The software to extend and build the custom Docker images is available under the Apache 2.0 License.