Chapter 2. Starting the services

Procedure

1. In your OpenShift 4.x cluster, create a new project:

   $ oc new-project debezium-tutorial

2. Change to the directory where you downloaded the AMQ Streams 1.5 OpenShift installation and example files.

3. Deploy the AMQ Streams Cluster Operator.

   The Cluster Operator is responsible for deploying and managing Kafka clusters within an OpenShift cluster. This command deploys the Cluster Operator to watch just the project that you created:

   $ sed -i 's/namespace: .*/namespace: debezium-tutorial/' install/cluster-operator/*RoleBinding*.yaml
   
   $ oc apply -f install/cluster-operator -n debezium-tutorial

4. Verify that the Cluster Operator is running.

   This command shows that the Cluster Operator is running, and that all of the Pods are ready:

   $ oc get pods
   NAME                                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   strimzi-cluster-operator-5c6d68c54-l4gdz   1/1     Running   0          46s

5. Deploy the Kafka cluster.

   This command uses the kafka-ephemeral-single.yaml Custom Resource to create an ephemeral Kafka cluster with three ZooKeeper nodes and one Kafka node:

   $ oc apply -f examples/kafka/kafka-ephemeral-single.yaml

6. Verify that the Kafka cluster is running.

   This command shows that the Kafka cluster is running, and that all of the Pods are ready:

   $ oc get pods
   NAME                                          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   my-cluster-entity-operator-5b5d4f7c58-8gnq5   3/3     Running   0          41s
   my-cluster-kafka-0                            2/2     Running   0          70s
   my-cluster-zookeeper-0                        2/2     Running   0          107s
   my-cluster-zookeeper-1                        2/2     Running   0          107s
   my-cluster-zookeeper-2                        2/2     Running   0          107s
   strimzi-cluster-operator-5c6d68c54-l4gdz      1/1     Running   0          8m53s

Procedure

1. Download the Debezium MySQL Connector 1.2 archive from the Red Hat Integration download site.

2. Extract the Debezium MySQL connector archive to create a directory structure for the connector plug-in, for example:

   tree ./my-plugins/
   ./my-plugins/
   ├── debezium-connector-mysql
   │   ├── ...

3. Create and publish a custom image that runs Kafka Connect with the Debezium MySQL connector:

   1. Create a new Dockerfile by using registry.redhat.io/amq7/amq-streams-kafka-25-rhel7:1.5.0 as the base image. In the following example, you would replace my-plugins with the name of your plug-ins directory:

      FROM registry.redhat.io/amq7/amq-streams-kafka-25-rhel7:1.5.0
      USER root:root
      COPY ./my-plugins/ /opt/kafka/plugins/
      USER 1001

      Before Kafka Connect starts running the connector, Kafka Connect loads any third-party plug-ins that are in the /opt/kafka/plugins directory.

   2. Build the container image. For example, if you saved the Dockerfile that you created in the previous step as debezium-container-for-mysql, and if the Dockerfile is in the current directory, then you would run the following command:

      podman build -t debezium-container-for-mysql:latest .

   3. Push your custom image to your container registry, for example:

      podman push debezium-container-for-mysql:latest

   4. Point to the new container image by editing the spec.image property of the KafkaConnector custom resource. If set, this property overrides the STRIMZI_DEFAULT_KAFKA_CONNECT_IMAGE variable in the Cluster Operator. For example:

      apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta1
      kind: KafkaConnector
      metadata:
        name: my-connect-cluster
      spec:
        #...
        image: debezium-container-for-mysql

Procedure

1. Start a MySQL database by running the following command, which starts a MySQL database server configured with an example inventory database:

   $ oc new-app --name=mysql debezium/example-mysql:1.2

2. Configure credentials for the MySQL database by running the following command, which updates the deployment configuration for the MySQL database to add the user name and password:

   $ oc set env dc/mysql MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=debezium  MYSQL_USER=mysqluser MYSQL_PASSWORD=mysqlpw

3. Verify that the MySQL database is running by invoking the following command, which is followed by the output that shows that the MySQL database is running, and that the pod is ready:

   $ oc get pods -l app=mysql
   NAME            READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   mysql-1-2gzx5   1/1     Running   1          23s

4. Open a new terminal and log into the sample inventory database.

   This command opens a MySQL command line client in the pod that is running the MySQL database. The client uses the user name and password that you previously configured:

   $ oc exec mysql-1-2gzx5 -it -- mysql -u mysqluser -pmysqlpw inventory
   mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.
   Reading table information for completion of table and column names
   You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
   
   Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
   Your MySQL connection id is 7
   Server version: 5.7.29-log MySQL Community Server (GPL)
   
   Copyright (c) 2000, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
   
   Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
   affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
   owners.
   
   Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
   
   mysql>

5. List the tables in the inventory database:

   mysql> show tables;
   +---------------------+
   | Tables_in_inventory |
   +---------------------+
   | addresses           |
   | customers           |
   | geom                |
   | orders              |
   | products            |
   | products_on_hand    |
   +---------------------+
   6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

6. Explore the database and view the data that it contains, for example, view the customers table:

   mysql> select * from customers;
   +------+------------+-----------+-----------------------+
   | id   | first_name | last_name | email                 |
   +------+------------+-----------+-----------------------+
   | 1001 | Sally      | Thomas    | sally.thomas@acme.com |
   | 1002 | George     | Bailey    | gbailey@foobar.com    |
   | 1003 | Edward     | Walker    | ed@walker.com         |
   | 1004 | Anne       | Kretchmar | annek@noanswer.org    |
   +------+------------+-----------+-----------------------+
   4 rows in set (0.00 sec)