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Prerequisites

To connect Confluent Cloud to PeerDB, you need a Confluent Cloud account with Kafka Server running.

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Setup Instructions

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Gather the following details from Confluent Cloud

bootstrap.servers=<host>:9092
security.protocol=SASL_SSL
sasl.mechanisms=PLAIN
sasl.username={{ CLUSTER_API_KEY }}
sasl.password={{ CLUSTER_API_SECRET }}

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Create the Kafka Peer

And then in UI you can create the Confluent Cloud / Kafka peer like so:

1. Click on Create Peer
2. Select Kafka
3. For Name use a desired name, e.g. confluent_kafka_1, only lowercase alphanumeric and underscores are allowed.
4. For Bootstrap Servers use the bootstrap.servers value from the previous step. Multiple servers can be specified as a comma separated list.
5. For Security Protocol use SASL_SSL.
6. For SASL Mechanism use PLAIN.
7. For Username use the CLUSTER_API_KEY from the previous step.
8. For Password use the CLUSTER_API_SECRET from the previous step.
9. Click Validate Connection
10. Click Create Peer