Getting ready to deploy Kafka for POC

Architecture and Design
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OK, I understand better now. So you’ve got:

  1. Use Confluent Cloud
  2. Use HDInsights
  3. Self-manage Confluent Platform

You’ll need to do your own evaluation of 1 vs 2 - this might help in terms of what to look at and evaluate.

In terms of deploying Kafka Connect as a distributed cluster you can do this using Docker if you want. It depends on your target runtime environment quite how you’d do it though.