The In the Kafka Profile profile configuration defines , you define which Kafka broker to consume messages from or produce messages to, if any security shall be applied, and if other specific settings for communication is are needed.
Configuration
To create a new Kafka profile configuration, click on the New Configuration button and then select Kafka Profile from the Configurations dialog.
The Kafka profile configuration contains two tabs:; Connectivity and Advanced.
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Setting | Description |
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Host | Hostname of the Kafka broker. |
Port | Port of the Kafka broker. |
Security ProfileClick | Browse If you want to have a secure connection, click Browse… to select a security Security profile with the certificate and configuration you want to use, if you prefer to use a secure connection. Refer to Security Profile for more informationsee Security (4.2) for more information about the Security profile. |
Advanced tab
In the Advanced tab, you can configure properties for optimizing the performance of the Kafka Producer and Consumer. The Advanced tab contains two tabs:; Producer and Consumer.
Producer tab
In the Producer tab, you can configure the properties of the Kafka forwarding agent. 
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Kafka profile configuration - Producer tab in the Advanced tab
For information on how to configure the properties for SSL and Kerberos, please refer to see https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/kafka/latest/topics/kafka_security.html.
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Note!
Once you have edited the JAAS file required for Kerberos, you will need to restart the EC to register the changes made.
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If you make any changes to the security configuration of the Kafka Producer, any topics used must be recreated before they can be used.
For further information on the properties refer to , see https://kafka.apache.org.
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To enable compression, just add the property compression.type into the Advanced producer properties. Followed by and add the value, gzip, lz4, snappy or none.
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