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Published inDec 2017
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Raúl Estrada has been a programmer since 1996 and a Java developer since 2001. He loves all topics related to computer science. With more than 15 years of experience in high-availability and enterprise software, he has been designing and implementing architectures since 2003. His specialization is in systems integration, and he mainly participates in projects related to the financial sector. He has been an enterprise architect for BEA Systems and Oracle Inc., but he also enjoys web, mobile, and game programming. Raúl is a supporter of free software and enjoys experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, languages, and methods. Raúl is the author of other Packt Publishing titles, such as Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK and Apache Kafka Cookbook.
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Pushing data from Kafka to Elastic


As mentioned, Elasticsearch is a distributed, full-text search engine that supports a RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch was built with distributed searches in mind. There are several ways to push data into Elasticsearch. In this recipe, the plugin that enables data pushing from Kafka to Elasticsearch is analyzed.

Getting ready

For this recipe, a Kafka cluster must be up and running and a confluent platform is needed. To install Elasticsearch follow the instructions on this page: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_installation.html.

How to do it...

The Elasticsearch connector is needed. Before starting the connector, the configuration is in

etc/kafka-connect-elasticsearch/quickstart-elasticsearch.properties.

This must be properly set to the Elasticsearch configuration: connection.url points to the correct HTTP address.

To start the Elasticsearch connector, use the following command:

$ ./bin/connect...
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Raúl Estrada has been a programmer since 1996 and a Java developer since 2001. He loves all topics related to computer science. With more than 15 years of experience in high-availability and enterprise software, he has been designing and implementing architectures since 2003. His specialization is in systems integration, and he mainly participates in projects related to the financial sector. He has been an enterprise architect for BEA Systems and Oracle Inc., but he also enjoys web, mobile, and game programming. Raúl is a supporter of free software and enjoys experimenting with new technologies, frameworks, languages, and methods. Raúl is the author of other Packt Publishing titles, such as Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK and Apache Kafka Cookbook.
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