This is based on using Confluent Cloud to provide your managed Kafka and Schema Registry. All that you run yourself is the Kafka Connect worker.
Optionally, you can use this Docker Compose to run the worker and a sample MySQL database.
I’ve written before about kafkacat and what a great tool it is for doing lots of useful things as a developer with Kafka. I used it too in a recent demo that I built in which data needed manipulating in a way that I couldn’t easily elsewhere. Today I want share a very simple but powerful use for kafkacat as both a consumer and producer: copying data from one Kafka cluster to another. In this instance it’s getting data from Confluent Cloud down to a local cluster.
