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# confluent connect cluster create

## Description

Create a connector.

```none
confluent connect cluster create [flags]
```

## Flags

```none
    --config-file string   REQUIRED: JSON connector configuration file.
    --cluster string       Kafka cluster ID.
    --context string       CLI context name.
    --environment string   Environment ID.
-o, --output string        Specify the output format as "human", "json", or "yaml". (default "human")
```

## Global Flags

```none
-h, --help            Show help for this command.
    --unsafe-trace    Equivalent to -vvvv, but also log HTTP requests and responses which might contain plaintext secrets.
-v, --verbose count   Increase verbosity (-v for warn, -vv for info, -vvv for debug, -vvvv for trace).
```

## Examples

Create a configuration file with connector configs and offsets.

```none
{
  "name": "MyGcsLogsBucketConnector",
  "config": {
    "connector.class": "GcsSink",
    "data.format": "BYTES",
    "flush.size": "1000",
    "gcs.bucket.name": "APILogsBucket",
    "gcs.credentials.config": "****************",
    "kafka.api.key": "****************",
    "kafka.api.secret": "****************",
    "name": "MyGcsLogsBucketConnector",
    "tasks.max": "2",
    "time.interval": "DAILY",
    "topics": "APILogsTopic"
  },
  "offsets": [
      {
        "partition": {
              "kafka_partition": 0,
              "kafka_topic": "topic_A"
        },
        "offset": {
              "kafka_offset": 1000
        }
      }
  ]
}
```

Create a connector in the current or specified Kafka cluster context.

```none
confluent connect cluster create --config-file config.json
confluent connect cluster create --config-file config.json --cluster lkc-123456
```

## See Also

* [confluent connect cluster](index.md#confluent-connect-cluster) - Manage Connect clusters.