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The Kafka connection is a Messaging connection. Use the Kafka connection to access an Apache Kafka broker as a source or a target. You can create and manage a Kafka connection in the Developer tool or through infacmd.
When you configure a Kafka connection, you configure the following properties:
The list of Kafka brokers that the connection reads from or writes to.
The number of seconds the Integration Service attempts to reconnect to the database if the connection fails.
Version of the Kafka messaging broker. Configure the Kafka messaging broker version to Apache 0.10.1.1 & above.