Connecting KSQL to Confluent Cloud¶

You can connect KSQL to your Apache Kafka® cluster in Confluent Cloud.

The KSQL servers must be configured to use Confluent Cloud. The KSQL CLI does not require configuration.

Prerequisites

Confluent Platform

Customize your /etc/ksql/ksql-server.properties properties file.

Tip

To use KSQL with Confluent Cloud, you must configure the KSQL server. The KSQL CLI does not require any additional configuration.

The following example shows the minimum configuration required to use KSQL with Confluent Cloud. You should also review the recommended KSQL production settings.

# a comma-separated list of the ccloud broker endpoints.
# eg. r0.great-app.confluent.aws.prod.cloud:9092,r1.great-app.confluent.aws.prod.cloud:9093,r2.great-app.confluent.aws.prod.cloud:9094
bootstrap.servers=<broker-endpoint1, broker-endpoint2, broker-endpoint3>
ksql.internal.topic.replicas=3
ksql.streams.replication.factor=3
ksql.logging.processing.topic.replication.factor=3
listeners=http://0.0.0.0:8088
security.protocol=SASL_SSL
sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
sasl.jaas.config=\
    org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required \
    username="<api-key>" \
    password="<api-secret>";

(Optional) Add configs for Confluent Cloud Schema Registry per the example in ksql-server-ccloud.delta on GitHub at ccloud/examples/template_delta_configs.

# Confluent Schema Registry configuration for KSQL Server
ksql.schema.registry.basic.auth.credentials.source=USER_INFO
ksql.schema.registry.basic.auth.user.info=<SCHEMA_REGISTRY_API_KEY>:<SCHEMA_REGISTRY_API_SECRET>
ksql.schema.registry.url=https://<SCHEMA_REGISTRY_ENDPOINT>

Restart the KSQL server. The steps to restart are dependent on your environment.

For more information, see Confluent Cloud Quick Start and KSQL Configuration Parameter Reference.

Create ACLs for KSQL to access Confluent Cloud¶

If your Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud has ACLs enabled, your KSQL cluster must be granted access to specific resources on the Kafka cluster. Use the following Confluent Cloud CLI command to create the necessary ACLs in the Kafka cluster to allow KSQL to operate on the specified topics.

If you provision KSQL by using the UI, you don’t need to run the ccloud ksql app configure-acls command.

Tip

Use the --dry-run option to preview all of the ACLs that the command sets, without actually setting them.

Run the following command to give your KSQL cluster access to the specified topics in Confluent Cloud.

ccloud ksql app configure-acls <ksql-cluster-id> <topic1> <topic2> ...

Create ACLs for KSQL to access a specific topic in Confluent Cloud¶

In addition to assigning ACLs to bring up a KSQL cluster and communicate with Confluent Cloud, you need to specify ACLs that enable KSQL users to access specific topics.

Get the KSQL service account ID¶

To assign ACLs for specific topics, you need the service account ID for the KSQL cluster. Use the --dry-run option in the Confluent Cloud CLI to get the service account ID.

Note

The service account ID is different from the KSQL cluster ID.

Run the following command to get the service account ID.

ccloud ksql app configure-acls <ksql-cluster-id> <test-topic> --dry-run

Your output should resemble:

  ServiceAccountId | Permission |    Operation     | Resource |             Name             |   Type
+------------------+------------+------------------+----------+------------------------------+----------+
  User:10248       | ALLOW      | DESCRIBE         | CLUSTER  | kafka-cluster                | LITERAL
  User:10248       | ALLOW      | DESCRIBE_CONFIGS | CLUSTER  | kafka-cluster                | LITERAL
  User:10248       | ALLOW      | CREATE           | TOPIC    | pksqlc-lgwpn                 | PREFIXED
  ...

The service account ID appears in the first column. In this example, the ID is 10248.

Assign ACLs to SELECT FROM a stream or table¶

Run the following command to enable read access for SELECT FROM STREAM/TABLE statements on the stream or table’s underlying topics.

ccloud kafka acl create --allow --service-account-id <id> --operation READ --topic <topic>

Assign ACLs for writing to a topic¶

Run the following command to enable write access to a topic.

ccloud kafka acl create --allow --service-account-id <id> --operation WRITE --topic <topic>

Assign ACLs for full access to all topics¶

Run the following command to enable full access to all topics.

ccloud kafka acl create --allow --service-account-id <id> --operation READ | WRITE --topic '*'

Assign ACLs for full access to prefixed topics¶

Run the following command to enable full access to all topics with names that start with the specified prefix.

ccloud kafka acl create --allow --service-account-id <id> --operation READ | WRITE --topic 'prefix' --prefix