Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source Connector for Confluent Cloud

The fully-managed Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source connector for Confluent Cloud can obtain a snapshot of the existing data in a Pub/Sub database and then monitor and record all subsequent row-level changes to that data. All of the events for each table are recorded in a separate Apache Kafka® topic. The events can then be easily consumed by applications and services. Note that deleted records are not captured.

Note

This is a Quick Start for the fully-managed cloud connector. If you are installing the connector locally for Confluent Platform, see Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source Connector for Confluent Platform.

Features

The Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source connector provides the following features:

  • Topics created automatically: The connector can automatically create Kafka topics.
  • Fetches records from a Pub/Sub topic through a subscription.
  • Select configuration properties:
    • gcp.pubsub.max.retry.time=5
    • gcp.pubsub.message.max.count=10000

For more information and examples to use with the Confluent Cloud API for Connect, see the Confluent Cloud API for Connect Usage Examples section.

Limitations

Be sure to review the following information.

Quick Start

Use this quick start to get up and running with the Google Cloud Pub/Sub source connector. The quick start provides the basics of selecting the connector and configuring it to obtain a snapshot of the existing data in a Pub/Sub database and then monitoring and recording all subsequent row-level changes.

Prerequisites
  • Kafka cluster credentials. The following lists the different ways you can provide credentials.
    • Enter an existing service account resource ID.
    • Create a Confluent Cloud service account for the connector. Make sure to review the ACL entries required in the service account documentation. Some connectors have specific ACL requirements.
    • Create a Confluent Cloud API key and secret. To create a key and secret, you can use confluent api-key create or you can autogenerate the API key and secret directly in the Cloud Console when setting up the connector.

Using the Confluent Cloud Console

Step 1: Launch your Confluent Cloud cluster

See the Quick Start for Confluent Cloud for installation instructions.

Step 2: Add a connector

In the left navigation menu, click Connectors. If you already have connectors in your cluster, click + Add connector.

Step 3: Select your connector

Click the Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source connector card.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source Connector Card

Step 4: Enter the connector details

Note

  • Make sure you have all your prerequisites completed.
  • An asterisk ( * ) designates a required entry.

At the Add Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source Connector screen, complete the following:

Select the topic you want to send data to from the Topics list. To create a new topic, click +Add new topic.

Step 5: Check the Kafka topic

After the connector is running, verify that messages are populating your Kafka topic.

For more information and examples to use with the Confluent Cloud API for Connect, see the Confluent Cloud API for Connect Usage Examples section.

Using the Confluent CLI

Complete the following steps to set up and run the connector using the Confluent CLI.

Note

Make sure you have all your prerequisites completed.

Step 1: List the available connectors

Enter the following command to list available connectors:

confluent connect plugin list
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Step 2: List the connector configuration properties

Enter the following command to show the connector configuration properties:

confluent connect plugin describe <connector-plugin-name>
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The command output shows the required and optional configuration properties.

Step 3: Create the connector configuration file

Create a JSON file that contains the connector configuration properties. The following example shows the required connector properties.

{
    "name" : "confluent-pubsub-source",
    "connector.class": "PubSubSource",
    "kafka.auth.mode": "KAFKA_API_KEY",
    "kafka.api.key": "<my-kafka-api-key>",
    "kafka.api.secret" : "<my-kafka-api-secret>",
    "kafka.topic" : "customers",
    "gcp.pubsub.credentials.json" : "omitted",
    "gcp.pubsub.project.id": "<gcp-project-ID>",
    "gcp.pubsub.topic.id":"<pubsub-topic-ID>",
    "gcp.pubsub.subscription.id": "<pubsub-subscription-ID>",
    "tasks.max" : "1"
}
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Note the following property definitions:

  • "name": Sets a name for your new connector.
  • "connector.class": Identifies the connector plugin name.
  • "kafka.auth.mode": Identifies the connector authentication mode you want to use. There are two options: SERVICE_ACCOUNT or KAFKA_API_KEY (the default). To use an API key and secret, specify the configuration properties kafka.api.key and kafka.api.secret, as shown in the example configuration (above). To use a service account, specify the Resource ID in the property kafka.service.account.id=<service-account-resource-ID>. To list the available service account resource IDs, use the following command:

    confluent iam service-account list
    
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    For example:

    confluent iam service-account list
    
       Id     | Resource ID |       Name        |    Description
    +---------+-------------+-------------------+-------------------
       123456 | sa-l1r23m   | sa-1              | Service account 1
       789101 | sa-l4d56p   | sa-2              | Service account 2
    
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  • "gcp.pubsub.credentials.json": This contains the contents of the downloaded JSON file. See Formatting credentials for details about how to format and use the contents of the downloaded credentials file.

Single Message Transforms: See the Single Message Transforms (SMT) documentation for details about adding SMTs using the CLI.

See Configuration Properties for all property values and definitions.

Formatting credentials

The contents of the downloaded credentials file must be converted to string format before it can be used in the connector configuration.

  1. Convert the JSON file contents into string format. You can use an online converter tool to do this. For example: JSON to String Online Converter.

  2. Add an escape character (\) before all \n entries in the Private Key section so that each section begins with \\n (see the highlighted lines below). The example below has been formatted so that the \\n entries are easier to see. Most of the credentials key has been omitted.

    Tip

    A script is available that converts the credentials to a string and also adds the additional \ escape character where needed. See Stringify |gc| Credentials.

      {
          "name" : "confluent-pubsub-source",
          "connector.class" : "PubSubSource",
          "kafka.api.key" : "<my-kafka-api-key>",
          "kafka.api.secret" : "<my-kafka-api-secret>",
          "gcp.pubsub.credentials.json" : "{\"type\":\"service_account\",\"project_id\":\"connect-
          1234567\",\"private_key_id\":\"omitted\",
          \"private_key\":\"-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
          \\nMIIEvAIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BA
          \\n6MhBA9TIXB4dPiYYNOYwbfy0Lki8zGn7T6wovGS5pzsIh
          \\nOAQ8oRolFp\rdwc2cC5wyZ2+E+bhwn
          \\nPdCTW+oZoodY\\nOGB18cCKn5mJRzpiYsb5eGv2fN\/J
          \\n...rest of key omitted...
          \\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\\n\",
          \"client_email\":\"pub-sub@connect-123456789.iam.gserviceaccount.com\",
          \"client_id\":\"123456789\",\"auth_uri\":\"https:\/\/accounts.google.com\/o\/oauth2\/
          auth\",\"token_uri\":\"https:\/\/oauth2.googleapis.com\/
          token\",\"auth_provider_x509_cert_url\":\"https:\/\/
          www.googleapis.com\/oauth2\/v1\/
          certs\",\"client_x509_cert_url\":\"https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/
          robot\/v1\/metadata\/x509\/pub-sub%40connect-
          123456789.iam.gserviceaccount.com\"}",
          "gcp.pubsub.project.id": "<gcp-project-ID>",
          "gcp.pubsub.topic.id":"<pubsub-topic-ID>",
          "gcp.pubsub.subscription.id": "<pubsub-subscription-ID>",
          "tasks.max" : "1"
      }
    
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  3. Add all the converted string content to the "keyfile" credentials section of your configuration file as shown in the example above.

Step 4: Load the configuration file and create the connector

Enter the following command to load the configuration and start the connector:

confluent connect cluster create --config-file <file-name>.json
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For example:

confluent connect cluster create --config-file pubsub-source-config.json
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Example output:

Created connector confluent-pubsub-source lcc-ix4dl
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Step 5: Check the connector status

Enter the following command to check the connector status:

confluent connect cluster list
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Example output:

ID          |       Name              | Status  | Type
+-----------+-------------------------+---------+-------+
lcc-ix4dl   | confluent-pubsub-source | RUNNING | source
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Step 6: Check the Kafka topic.

After the connector is running, verify that messages are populating your Kafka topic.

For more information and examples to use with the Confluent Cloud API for Connect, see the Confluent Cloud API for Connect Usage Examples section.

Configuration Properties

Use the following configuration properties with the fully-managed connector. For self-managed connector property definitions and other details, see the connector docs in Self-managed connectors for Confluent Platform.

How should we connect to your data?

name

Sets a name for your connector.

  • Type: string
  • Valid Values: A string at most 64 characters long
  • Importance: high

Kafka Cluster credentials

kafka.auth.mode

Kafka Authentication mode. It can be one of KAFKA_API_KEY or SERVICE_ACCOUNT. It defaults to KAFKA_API_KEY mode.

  • Type: string
  • Default: KAFKA_API_KEY
  • Valid Values: KAFKA_API_KEY, SERVICE_ACCOUNT
  • Importance: high
kafka.api.key

Kafka API Key. Required when kafka.auth.mode==KAFKA_API_KEY.

  • Type: password
  • Importance: high
kafka.service.account.id

The Service Account that will be used to generate the API keys to communicate with Kafka Cluster.

  • Type: string
  • Importance: high
kafka.api.secret

Secret associated with Kafka API key. Required when kafka.auth.mode==KAFKA_API_KEY.

  • Type: password
  • Importance: high

Which topic do you want to send data to?

kafka.topic

Identifies the topic name to write the data to.

  • Type: list
  • Importance: high

GCP credentials

gcp.pubsub.credentials.json

GCP service account JSON file with read permissions for Pub/Sub.

  • Type: password
  • Importance: high

GCP Pub/Sub details

gcp.pubsub.project.id

ID for the GCP project where the Pub/Sub is located.

  • Type: string
  • Importance: high
gcp.pubsub.topic.id

The Pub/Sub topic containing messages that have to be polled.

  • Type: string
  • Importance: high
gcp.pubsub.subscription.id

The subscription ID for the Pub/Sub topic.

  • Type: string
  • Importance: high

Connection details

gcp.pubsub.message.max.count

The maximum number of messages to be polled in a single Pub/Sub pull request.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 10000
  • Valid Values: [1000,…]
  • Importance: low
gcp.pubsub.max.retry.time

The maximum time in seconds that the Pub/Sub client will try polling records from Pub/Sub topic.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 5
  • Valid Values: [5,…]
  • Importance: low
gcp.pubsub.data.format

Pub/Sub Message Data format. This property defines the initial format of message data obtained from the GCP Pub/Sub.

utf_8 will convert pub/sub message data (bytes) into utf-8 based string format.

bytes will keep the pub/sub message data (bytes) without any conversion.

  • Type: string
  • Default: utf_8
  • Valid Values: bytes, utf_8
  • Importance: low
output.data.format

Set the output data format for values. Valid entries are AVRO, PROTOBUF and JSON. Recommended to use AVRO or PROTOBUF format when setting gcp.pubsub.data.format as BYTES

  • Type: string
  • Default: JSON
  • Valid Values: AVRO, JSON, PROTOBUF
  • Importance: low

Number of tasks for this connector

tasks.max

Maximum number of tasks for the connector.

  • Type: int
  • Valid Values: [1,…]
  • Importance: high

Additional Configs

header.converter

The converter class for the headers. This is used to serialize and deserialize the headers of the messages.

  • Type: string
  • Importance: low
producer.override.compression.type

The compression type for all data generated by the producer.

  • Type: string
  • Importance: low
producer.override.linger.ms

The producer groups together any records that arrive in between request transmissions into a single batched request. More details can be found in the documentation: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/configuration/producer-configs.html#linger-ms.

  • Type: long
  • Valid Values: [100,…,1000]
  • Importance: low
value.converter.allow.optional.map.keys

Allow optional string map key when converting from Connect Schema to Avro Schema. Applicable for Avro Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.auto.register.schemas

Specify if the Serializer should attempt to register the Schema.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.connect.meta.data

Allow the Connect converter to add its metadata to the output schema. Applicable for Avro Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.enhanced.avro.schema.support

Enable enhanced schema support to preserve package information and Enums. Applicable for Avro Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.enhanced.protobuf.schema.support

Enable enhanced schema support to preserve package information. Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.flatten.unions

Whether to flatten unions (oneofs). Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.generate.index.for.unions

Whether to generate an index suffix for unions. Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.generate.struct.for.nulls

Whether to generate a struct variable for null values. Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.int.for.enums

Whether to represent enums as integers. Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.latest.compatibility.strict

Verify latest subject version is backward compatible when use.latest.version is true.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.object.additional.properties

Whether to allow additional properties for object schemas. Applicable for JSON_SR Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.optional.for.nullables

Whether nullable fields should be specified with an optional label. Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.optional.for.proto2

Whether proto2 optionals are supported. Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.scrub.invalid.names

Whether to scrub invalid names by replacing invalid characters with valid characters. Applicable for Avro and Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.use.latest.version

Use latest version of schema in subject for serialization when auto.register.schemas is false.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.use.optional.for.nonrequired

Whether to set non-required properties to be optional. Applicable for JSON_SR Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.wrapper.for.nullables

Whether nullable fields should use primitive wrapper messages. Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
value.converter.wrapper.for.raw.primitives

Whether a wrapper message should be interpreted as a raw primitive at root level. Applicable for Protobuf Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Importance: low
errors.tolerance

Use this property if you would like to configure the connector’s error handling behavior. WARNING: This property should be used with CAUTION for SOURCE CONNECTORS as it may lead to dataloss. If you set this property to ‘all’, the connector will not fail on errant records, but will instead log them (and send to DLQ for Sink Connectors) and continue processing. If you set this property to ‘none’, the connector task will fail on errant records.

  • Type: string
  • Default: none
  • Importance: low
key.converter.key.subject.name.strategy

How to construct the subject name for key schema registration.

  • Type: string
  • Default: TopicNameStrategy
  • Importance: low
value.converter.decimal.format

Specify the JSON/JSON_SR serialization format for Connect DECIMAL logical type values with two allowed literals:

BASE64 to serialize DECIMAL logical types as base64 encoded binary data and

NUMERIC to serialize Connect DECIMAL logical type values in JSON/JSON_SR as a number representing the decimal value.

  • Type: string
  • Default: BASE64
  • Importance: low
value.converter.flatten.singleton.unions

Whether to flatten singleton unions. Applicable for Avro and JSON_SR Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: false
  • Importance: low
value.converter.ignore.default.for.nullables

When set to true, this property ensures that the corresponding record in Kafka is NULL, instead of showing the default column value. Applicable for AVRO,PROTOBUF and JSON_SR Converters.

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: false
  • Importance: low
value.converter.reference.subject.name.strategy

Set the subject reference name strategy for value. Valid entries are DefaultReferenceSubjectNameStrategy or QualifiedReferenceSubjectNameStrategy. Note that the subject reference name strategy can be selected only for PROTOBUF format with the default strategy being DefaultReferenceSubjectNameStrategy.

  • Type: string
  • Default: DefaultReferenceSubjectNameStrategy
  • Importance: low
value.converter.replace.null.with.default

Whether to replace fields that have a default value and that are null to the default value. When set to true, the default value is used, otherwise null is used. Applicable for JSON Converter.

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: true
  • Importance: low
value.converter.schemas.enable

Include schemas within each of the serialized values. Input messages must contain schema and payload fields and may not contain additional fields. For plain JSON data, set this to false. Applicable for JSON Converter.

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: false
  • Importance: low
value.converter.value.subject.name.strategy

Determines how to construct the subject name under which the value schema is registered with Schema Registry.

  • Type: string
  • Default: TopicNameStrategy
  • Importance: low

Auto-restart policy

auto.restart.on.user.error

Enable connector to automatically restart on user-actionable errors.

  • Type: boolean
  • Default: true
  • Importance: medium

Next Steps

For an example that shows fully-managed Confluent Cloud connectors in action with Confluent Cloud ksqlDB, see the Cloud ETL Demo. This example also shows how to use Confluent CLI to manage your resources in Confluent Cloud.

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