Connecting to Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud is a fully-managed cloud service based on Apache Kafka. This tutorial shows you how to create Confluent Cloud-type stores directly in DeltaStream.

Note For more information on creating stores, see Creating Stores for Streaming Data.

To create a Confluent Cloud Store

1. In the lefthand navigation, click Resources, and then click Add Store +.

   

   Adding a Store
2. From the menu that displays, click ConfluentKafka. The Add Store window opens.

   
3. Enter the authentication and connection parameters. This includes:

   1. a unique Name for the store. Store names are limited to a maximum of 255 characters. Only alphanumeric characters, dashes, and underscores are allowed.

   2. the Access Region. Region information indicates where data is stored or streams through.

   3. the URIs to connect to Confluent Cloud. You can find your bootstrap server on Confluent's Cluster settings page.

      
   4. the API Key and API Secret created on Confluent Cloud.

4. Click Add.

Your Confluent Cloud Cluster displays on the Resources page in your list of stores.

To inspect the topics in the store, and to print their records, simply click on the store.

With your Confluent Cloud store set up, view the following tutorials to learn how to manage and process your streaming data with DeltaStream.

• Namespacing with Database and Schema

• Creating Relations to Structure Raw Data

• Creating and Querying Materialized Views