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Connection profiles for Kafka Writer

Kafka Writer requires the use of connection profiles to connect to Kafka and the Confluent schema registry.

Kafka connection profiles support the following authentication methods:

  • AWS_MSK_IAM

  • GSSAPI

  • Mutual TLS

  • None

  • PLAIN

  • SCRAM_SHA_256

  • SCRAM_SHA_512

Confluent Schema Registry connection profiles support the following authentication methods:

  • Basic

  • Confluent Cloud API

  • Mutual TLS

  • None

For instructions on creating a connection profile, see Connection profiles. Detailed instructions for each authentication method are available in the inline help when you create or edit a connection profile.