Hi, In the past months, some folks at Red Hat have been working on the integration between Apache Camel and Kafka Connect. Kafka Connect, an open source component of Kafka, is a framework for connecting Kafka with external systems and in a nutshell to inject data in and out of a Kafka broker [1].
The result of the polishing of the initial PoC is available in the camel-kafka-connector repository [2]. I do believe that making camel appealing to be used directly inside the Kafka ecosystem would be beneficial for our community. Providing unmatched external system connectivity capabilities to Kafka would expand the use of camel in the streaming world. So I’m proposing to officially support camel-kafka-connect as an Apache Camel’s main subproject that could be regarded as a new platform along with those we support as today (Spring Boot, Karaf and recently Quarkus). The original contributors, on behalf of which I speak, are keen to donate the code hosted in the repository at [2] to the Apache Software foundation. Thoughts ? Andrea Tarocchi. Andrea Cosentino. [1] https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect [2] https://github.com/jboss-fuse/camel-kafka-connector -- "In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates?" Andrea Tarocchi about.me/andrea.tarocchi
