Chapter 1. Overview of Streams for Apache Kafka

You can use the Kafka Bridge API to create and manage consumers and send and receive records over HTTP rather than the native Kafka protocol.

When you set up the Kafka Bridge you configure HTTP access to the Kafka cluster. You can then use the Kafka Bridge to produce and consume messages from the cluster, as well as performing other operations through its REST interface.

User-replaced values, also known as replaceables, are shown in with angle brackets (< >). Underscores ( _ ) are used for multi-word values. If the value refers to code or commands, monospace is also used.

For example, the following code shows that <bootstrap_address> and <topic_name> must be replaced with your own address and topic name:

bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server <broker_host>:<port> --topic <topic_name> --from-beginning

bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server <broker_host>:<port> --topic <topic_name> --from-beginning