Confluent - Administrator for Apache Kafka Study Guide

4: Kafka Connect

This chapter treats Kafka Connect as a cluster the administrator deploys, sizes, secures, and repairs alongside the broker fleet built in earlier chapters. It covers distributed-mode topology and its three compacted internal topics, task scaling and rebalancing, the REST control surface, converter and error handling policies, plugin installation, Connect observability, and the adjacent Schema Registry and ksqlDB services an administrator runs on top of the same brokers.