Tableflow: Turn Kafka Topics into Iceberg Tables
Jul 10, 2026Mohtasham Sayeed Mohiuddin
Summary
Introduces Tableflow, a managed feature in Confluent Cloud that materializes Kafka topics into Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables. It details the end-to-end pipeline: Kafka topic ingestion, Kora storage layer processing, Parquet conversion, table metadata generation, catalog publishing, and schema governance via Schema Registry. The post also provides a step-by-step tutorial for enabling Tableflow with Amazon S3 storage, including AWS IAM role configuration and policy setup, and discusses schema evolution handling based on Confluent Schema Registry compatibility rules.
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