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Dhananjay Patkar commented on KAFKA-5635:
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Thanks [~ewencp]

In my case, I am using kafka hosted as a cloud offering, I will check with them.

As per my understanding, my cloud provider is planning to expose a ReST 
endpoint to publish and consume messages from Kafka. I thought its convenient 
to capture data through ReST.  But then I still need to incremental data push 
and state management which kafka connect provides.

> KIP-181 Kafka-Connect integrate with kafka ReST Proxy
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-5635
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5635
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: KafkaConnect
>            Reporter: Dhananjay Patkar
>              Labels: features, newbie
>
> Kafka connect currently uses kafka clients which directly connect to kafka 
> brokers. 
> In a use case, wherein I have many kafka connect [producers] running remotely 
> its a challenge to configure broker information on every connect agent.
> Also, in case of IP change [upgrade or cluster re-creation], we need to 
> update every remote connect configuration.
> If kafka connect source connectors talk to ReST endpoint then client is 
> unaware of broker details. This way we can transparently upgrade / re-create 
> kafka cluster as long as ReST endpoint remains same.



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