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Confluent offers a fully managed cloud-native Apache Kafka service (Confluent Cloud) as well as an enterprise-grade distribution for Apache Kafka (Confluent Platform).

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Setting up Confluent

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1. Add integration

Select Confluent from the integrations page.

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2. Configure settings

Fill out the form with the following settings:
SettingRequiredDescription
Name✓Name that will be displayed to users when selecting this integration in Superblocks
Brokers✓Comma-separated list of Confluent Cloud bootstrap servers
SASL Mechanism✓Authentication mechanism. Choose between PLAIN, SCRAM SHA256, SCRAM SHA512.
Username✓Confluent Cloud API key
Password✓Secret value for the API key provided as the username
Enable SSL✗Connect via SSL if selected (SSL encryption should always be used if SASL mechanism is PLAIN)
Learn how to create a Confluent Cloud API key.

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3. Test and save

Click Test Connection to check that Superblocks can connect to the data source.
If using Superblocks Cloud, add these Superblocks IPs to your allowlist (not necessary for Hybrid or Cloud-Prem deployments).
After connecting successfully, click Create to save the integration.

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4. Set profiles

Optionally, configure different profiles for separate development environments.

Confluent connected!
You can now consume and produce messages through Confluent in any Application, Workflow, or Scheduled Job.