Open Source alternative for Confluent Kafka Connect MQTT Source and Sink connectors [closed]

Question

I want to connect by MQTT broker to Apache Kafka (non enterprise version and no confluent kafka managed service used).

I was using Confluent's Kafka Connect MQTT source and sink but I realized it comes with a trial period of 30 days after which it requires a license.

Are there any other open source / free options to use as a bidirectional bridge between Apache Kafka and mqtt broker.

Answer 1

You can use Lenses' MQTT Source Connector:

A Connector to read events from MQTT and push them to Kafka. The connector subscribes to the specified topics and and streams the records to Kafka.

Lenses also offer MQTT Sink Connector for streaming records from Kafka to a target system.

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Both connectors require the following:

• Apache Kafka 0.11.x of above
• Kafka Connect 2.x or above
• Mqtt server
• Java 1.8