Sign up with Lenses and download your license key.
Aiven for Apache Kafka is a fully managed streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice.
Start by signing up for an Aiven account. Follow the in-product instructions to launch a Kafka cluster within the Aiven user interface.
Run the following in a terminal:
docker run -e LENSES_PORT=8080 -p 8080:8080 lensesio/lenses
Wait for this message in the logs:
2021-12-16 18:17:04,322 INFO [i.l.b.r.HttpServer] [ioapp-compute-6] Lenses http server started and listening to requests.
Now your Lenses is up and running.
Head to http://localhost:8080.
Login as admin:
admin
From the aiven console on the Connection information Apache Kafka tab select as an Authentication Method SASL.
SASL
Grab the Service URI, place it on the wizard Bootstrap Servers and select as Security Protocol SASL SSL with SASL Mechanism SCRAM-SHA-256.
Bootstrap Servers
SASL SSL
SASL Mechanism SCRAM-SHA-256
On the JAAS Configuration update the username and password from the respective fields User and Password on the Aiven console.
username
password
org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="[Your_Connection_Details_Username]" password="[Your_Connection_Details_Password]"
Open a new CLI tab and execute the Aiven-cli command - in case of not having the Aiven-cli installed, you can get it from the Aiven website:
avn service user-kafka-java-creds <YOUR SERVICE NAME> --username <YOUR AIVEN EMAIL> -d <DIRECTORY TO PRODUCE THE FILE> --password <A PASSWORD FOR YOUR TRUSTORE>
The command above will create 3 files at the directory that we specified:
On the same directory run the command:
docker run \ -v ${PWD}/ca.pem:/tmp/file.pem:ro \ -v ${PWD}/:/output \ -it --rm lensesio/lenses:5.5.0 /usr/bin/keytool \ -importcert \ -noprompt \ -trustcacerts \ -keystore /output/truststore.jks \ -alias “aivenjks” \ -file /tmp/file.pem \ -storepass changeit \ -storetype JKS
This will create a trustore.jks on the same directory, with a password of changeit.
trustore.jks
changeit
Proceed by adding the trustore file on the wizard, with its password - changeit.
Click on Test Kafka Brokers. And you should get the message: Validation completed successfully.
Test Kafka Brokers
Validation completed successfully
From the Aiven platform interface select:
Service Integrations ➡ Jolokia ➡ Create new
Provide the:
From the Overview tab, scroll down to “Service Integrations”. Click on Manage Integrations From the popup select Jolokia - Use Integration - and then enable:
Back to the wizard step 3, select:
POST
HTTPS
6733
jolokia
As shown in the figure:
Then toggle on the Use Authentication option, and from Aiven Service grab the username and the Password from:
Service Integrations ➡ Jolokia ➡ Endpoint Name
as you defined above.
Click on Test Broker Metrics. And you should get the message: Validation completed successfully.
Test Broker Metrics
Add your Lenses license. Copy and paste the JSON file you downloaded from your email. Lenses will check that the license is valid.
Click on Save & Boot Lenses. Lenses will finish configuring itself.
From Lenses Select
Schema Registry ➡ Create Connection
On the aiven platform enable Schema Registry:
On the Overview tab select Schema Registry from the connection information and grab the Service URI:
Paste that in the Nodes, and click on Test Schema Registry Connection.
You should get a validation message similar to:
Click on Apply Changes.
Similarly to the Scema Registry grab the Service URI from the Aiven Platform from the Apache Kafka Connect tab.
Back to Lenses select select connectors and create Connection:
Give it a name, and on the workers paste the uri:
Click on Test Kafka Connect Connection and similar to Schema Registry, hit on Apply Changes.
Test Kafka Connect Connection
Apply Changes
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