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How to manage Kafka connectors - Kafka Tutorial
From the course: Kafka Essentials: Quick Start for Building Effective Data Pipelines by Pearson
How to manage Kafka connectors
Welcome to Lesson 6.2, Learn How to Manage Kafka Connectors. If you recall, in Lesson 6.1, I introduced the concept of Kafka Connectors. These are pre-written connections to some common services and tasks that we'd like to do with Kafka. In this lesson, I'm going to introduce a simple Kafka connector that will read from a file and write to a file, which we've done in the past. And also I'm going to introduce how to manage connectors using the REST API. Now, as in the past, I have plenty of tabs open. It looks like I have five tabs open here. And in the last tab down here, I actually started Kafka-esque. So we can use that to check a few things. And also let's move to a working window here. And remember the first tab here was our notes file that we're looking at. And we move to a working window. And recall that on the Linux Hadoop Minimal, we are under Home, Hands-On, Kafka Essentials, Lesson 6, Kafka Connect. And then here we are here in our working directory, 6.2 Managed Kafka…