{"id":2650,"date":"2021-03-18T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:47:01","slug":"seamlessly-transfer-kafka-data-with-the-new-azure-cosmos-db-connector-for-confluent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/seamlessly-transfer-kafka-data-with-the-new-azure-cosmos-db-connector-for-confluent\/","title":{"rendered":"Seamlessly transfer Kafka data with the new Azure Cosmos DB connector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can now move data to and from Apache Kafka with self-managed Azure Cosmos DB source and sink connectors for Kafka Connect.\u00a0 The connectors can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.confluent.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confluent<\/a>, and are now in public preview beta release. You can also visit GitHub to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/kafka-connect-cosmosdb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the Azure Cosmos DB connector<\/a> and find details and documentation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/kafka-connect-cosmosdb\/blob\/dev\/doc\/README_Source.md#source-configuration-properties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Source Connector <\/a>and the<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/kafka-connect-cosmosdb\/blob\/dev\/doc\/README_Sink.md#sink-configuration-properties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Sink Connector.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both the sink and source connector take advantage of key Azure Cosmos DB functionality to seamlessly connect with Apache Kafka streaming data. The source connector reads data from the powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/change-feed-unsung-hero-of-azure-cosmos-db\/\">Azure Cosmos DB change feed<\/a> and then publishes it to selected Apache Kafka topics. The sink connector can export data from Apache Kafka topics to containers in Azure Cosmos DB databases.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2651\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_2651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2021\/03\/Confluent-Connector_screenshot.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2651 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2021\/03\/Confluent-Connector_screenshot.png\" alt=\"Confluent website showing Azure Cosmos DB Connector\" width=\"936\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2021\/03\/Confluent-Connector_screenshot.png 936w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2021\/03\/Confluent-Connector_screenshot-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2021\/03\/Confluent-Connector_screenshot-768x528.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_2651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Azure Cosmos DB Kafka connectors are available for download on Confluent.io<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Get started with Azure Cosmos DB connectors\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.confluent.io\/hub\/microsoftcorporation\/kafka-connect-cosmos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a> the Azure Cosmos DB connectors on the Confluent website<\/li>\n<li>Find examples and more on the <a style=\"background-color: #f7f7f9; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/kafka-connect-cosmosdb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub repo for the Azure Cosmos DB Kafka connectors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Subscribe to Confluent in <a href=\"https:\/\/ms.portal.azure.com\/#create\/confluentinc.confluent-cloud-azure-prod\/preview\">Azure Marketplace\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn more about <a style=\"background-color: #f7f7f9; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.confluent.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confluent<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enable smooth data transfers between Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB. New self-managed source and sink Azure Cosmos DB connectors for Kafka Connect are available now and can be downloaded from Confluent Hub or on GitHub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18741,"featured_media":2651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[1776,1775,1777],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-core-sql-api","tag-confluent","tag-kafka","tag-streaming-data"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Enable smooth data transfers between Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB. New self-managed source and sink Azure Cosmos DB connectors for Kafka Connect are available now and can be downloaded from Confluent Hub or on GitHub.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cosmosdb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}