Confluent Hub is an online repository for extensions and components for Kafka. Kafka is based on extensible model for many of its services.
It allows plug-ins and extensions which makes it generic enough to be suitable for many real world streaming based applications. They include both Confluent and 3rd party components.
Generally, you would go there to search for components including:
- Connectors
- SMT (Single Message Transforms)
- Converters
Installing Connectors from Confluent Hub:
The enterprise version of Confluent provides a script for installing Connectors and other components from Confluent Hub (the script is not included in the Open Source version).
If we're using the enterprise version, we can install a connector using the following command:
$CONFLUENT_HOME/bin/confluent-hub install confluentinc/kafka-connect-mqtt:1.0.0-preview
More no of connectors can be found under below link:
