An Overview About the Different Kafka Connect Plugins
- Published: February 18, 2021
- Reading time: 3 minutes.
- Series: | Kafka Connect |
- Tags: | Kafka | Connect |
Kafka Connect is a great framework for connecting Kafka with external systems. In the best case you can use Connect right away. But in some special cases you might have to write your own plugins to add missing functionality to the framework. In this blog post I give a short overview about the different plugin types which can be used to add new functionality to Connect.
In the last part of this blog post I give you a short introduction to my GitHub project Ready, Steady, Connect - A Kafka Connect Quickstart.