Managed Connectors with Confluent Cloud & DevOps Study Hall

Hello Everyone!

Join us for a Confluent Cloud and DevOps Study Hall!

For this upcoming meetup we will be covering Managed Connectors with Confluent Cloud & DevOps. The session will be guided by Rick Spurgeon of Confluent.

For more details, such as content and things you need to do before the event, see below!

Agenda (time below is GMT+1):
6:00pm-6:10pm: Online networking and set up

6:10pm-7:10pm: Study Hall run through (Questions throughout and at the end)

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Your Guide:
Rick Spurgeon, Integration Architect, Confluent

Study Hall Title:
Managed Connectors with Confluent Cloud & DevOps

Abstract:
Please join us for a workshop highlighting Confluent Cloud Managed Connectors! For this upcoming event, we will be covering Managed Connectors including operations with the Confluent ccloud CLI, Confluent Cloud REST API, and an advanced look at a declarative GitOps based approach to managed connector lifecycles. This session can help you navigate this topic if you’re just starting out or looking to answer advanced “Go To Production” questions.

Bio:
Rick is an integration architect at Confluent. For the last 20 years he has worked in the fintech/electronic trading space as a software developer building trading, back office, and credit card transaction processing systems. His particular interests lie in distributed computing platforms, build and deployment systems, software development, and the challenges of stitching together open source software.

Know before you go
--IMPORTANT--
This session will utilize Confluent Cloud, a fully managed event streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka. If you'd like to work along with the tutorial in the session, please sign up for Confluent Cloud at:

cnfl.io/MU-Try-Cloud

When signing up for a new account, use the promo code DEVOPS200 to receive an additional $200 free usage (details).

This workshop will walk through creating real Confluent Cloud resources including environments, clusters, topics and Kafka Connect clusters. To avoid unexpected charges please follow the provided guidance and destroy all resources created during the session.

This session will build a Connector from Confluent Cloud to Google Cloud Platform’s BigQuery SQL Service in order to show a fully managed Kafka to SQL data pipeline. To follow along fully will require a Google Cloud account with access to BigQuery (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery).

Prerequisites
The study hall will use the following local development tools:
Confluent Cloud CLI (http://cnfl.io/3t4c5qT)
curl will be used to deploy a connector using the command line and the new Confluent Cloud Connector REST API (install link: http://cnfl.io/3c9C5L8)
jq is useful for JSON processing on the command line (install link: http://cnfl.io/36cxJiA)
A Google Cloud Platform account with access to BigQuery

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Online Meetup Etiquette:
•Please unmute yourself when you have a question.
•Please hold your questions until the end of the presentation or use the zoomchat!
•Please arrive on time as zoom meetings can become locked for many reasons (though if you get locked out a recording will be available, but you may have to wait a little while for it!)

Please arrive on time as zoom meetings can become locked for many reasons (though if you get locked out a recording will be available, but you may have to wait a little while for it!)

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