Using lakeFS with Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds.

Different distributions of Kafka offer different methods for exporting data to S3 called Kafka Sink Connectors.

The most commonly used Connector for S3 is Confluent’s S3 Sink Connector.

Add the following to connector.properties file for lakeFS support:

# Your lakeFS repository
s3.bucket.name=example-repo

# Your lakeFS S3 endpoint and credentials
store.url=https://lakefs.example.com
aws.access.key.id=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
aws.secret.access.key=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

# main being the branch we want to write to
topics.dir=main/topics