Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2227#discussion_r70457990
--- Diff: docs/apis/streaming/connectors/kinesis.md ---
@@ -299,3 +299,41 @@ Otherwise, the returned stream name is used.
Other optional configuration keys can be found in `KinesisConfigConstants`.
+### Using non-AWS Kinesis Endpoints
+
+It is sometimes desirable to have Flink operate as a consumer or producer
against a non-AWS Kinesis endpoint such as kinesalite; this is especially
useful when performing functional testing of a Flink application. The AWS
endpoint that would normally be inferred by the AWS region set in the Flink
configuration must be overriden via a configuration property.
--- End diff --
We should be linking "kinesalite" to the project. Should we also capitalize
"K"?
However, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to refer to another public Github
project in the documentation, even though Kinesalite is a widely adopted
solution for local Kinesis testing. We'll need to have @rmetzger 's comment on
this.
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