Using Kafka clients to connect to StreamNative Cloud

You can use the Kafka protocol to migrate existing Kafka applications and services to Pulsar without modifying the code.

• What is Kafka on Pulsar?
• Understanding Kafka-on-Pulsar

Get Started

• To set up a Pulsar cluster with the Kafka protocol enabled and configure a Kafka client to produce and consume messages, use the Kafka Protocol QuickStart Guide.

Supported Kafka clients

You can use the following Kafka clients to connect to your Pulsar cluster.

• Kafka Java client
• Kafka Python client
• Kafka Go client
• Kafka Node.js client
• Kafka Stream
• KSQL

Kafka client page wizard

To help you get started with setting up Kafka client libraries and tools after provisioning your cluster, StreamNative Cloud Console provides a step-by-step wizard to walk you through the basic setup and configuration process, such as selecting or creating service accounts, downloading key files or tokens, installing client libraries, generating sample codes to run, and so on.

To get started with the Kafka client setup wizard, follow these steps.

1. On the left navigation pane of StreamNative Cloud Console, in the Admin section, click Kafka Clients.

   

2. Follow the wizard to generate the sample code you need for connecting to your Pulsar cluster.

With a copy-and-paste, you can run the given sample code to produce and consume messages.

Related topics

• Connect to your cluster through a Kafka client
• Building applications using Pulsar clients