Camel Kafka Connector

Introduction

Note

This project is still in its infancy. Is it relatively stable and leverages more than a decade of Apache Camel experience and maturity. At the same time, it is in constant evolution. Almost every week new features are implemented and current ones adjusted to integrate better with both Camel and Kafka Connect.

This is a "Camel Kafka connector adapter" that aims to provide a user-friendly way to use all Apache Camel components in Kafka Connect. For more information about Kafka Connect take a look here.

Build the project

mvn clean package

Build the project and run integration tests

To build the project it is sufficient to:

mvn clean install

To run the integration tests it is required to:

• have Docker version 17.05 or higher running

• run:

  mvn -DskipIntegrationTests=false clean verify package

It is also possible to point the tests to use an external services. Please check the testing guide.

Try it out locally

You can use Camel Kafka connectors with local Apache Kafka installation. For more details see the local guide.

Try it out on OpenShift with Strimzi

You can also use Camel Kafka connectors on OpenShift. For more details see the OpenShift guide.

Known limitations

In order to use other Camel components you need to add them as dependencies in the project pom.xml.