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Virtusa UK Ltd
GB
Last activity: 15 Feb 2023 6:37 EST
PEGA Cloud connectivity issue to Confluent Kafka
Hi - I want to connect to Confluent Kafka cluster from PEGA cloud instance.
I have created a kafka instance and mapped the hostname and port number. Upon saving the kafka rule instance, I am getting the Connectivity exception. If I hit the Test connectivity button, I am getting a timeout error saying unable to fetch the topic metadata. I am not getting any useful error messages in the logs.
Can anyone please advise if you have tried connecting to confluent kafka before? I am using pega 8.7.4 version
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Morgan Stanley
IN
I had the same issue, you can use the below settings in a properties file and upload it in the kafka instance. make sure there are no extra spaces or new lines. this resolved the issue for me in 8.7.4 pega cloud.
sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
security.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT
sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username='myusername' password='mypassword';
also, check if your kafka provider supports jaas based authentication. as pega cloud can be accessed directly from internet, if your kafka provider accepts requests only from a private network then you might have to check with your internal network team.
Natwest
GB
@RamprasadV9372 Thanks for the response. Organization I am working in has restrictions and they are not allowing external cloud to access their topics even via aws private link. So have gone with API based approach where they are exposing a REST which in turn publishes into the internal topics.
Anyways Thanks a lot for your useful info. Someone will benefit