I do lots of work with Kafka Connect, almost entirely in Distributed mode—even just with 1 node -> makes scaling out much easier when/if needed. Because I’m using Distributed mode, I use the Kafka Connect REST API to configure and manage it. Whilst others might use GUI REST tools like Postman etc, I tend to just use the commandline. Here are some useful snippets that I use all the time.

I’m showing the commands split with a line continuation character (\) but you can of course run them on a single line. You might also choose to get fancy and set the Connect host and port as environment variables etc, but I leave that as an exercise for the reader :)