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Unified CLI for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

Unified CLI for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

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2019–2022

This release details how to use Apache Kafka command-line tools with Confluent Cloud, enabling users to leverage familiar tools for managing topics, consumers, and consumer groups. It covers creating configuration files with API keys and secrets, and provides examples for kafka-console-producer, kafka-console-consumer, and kafka-consumer-groups. The post also addresses connectivity troubleshooting and highlights the availability of Confluent Platform tools for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

2022

Building a Hybrid Cloud Data Pipeline is Even Easier with Confluent CLI v2 | Confluent Multi-Cloud Data Pipelines are Even Easier with Confluent CLI v2

4/21/2022

Introduces Confluent CLI v2, unifying ccloud CLI functionality into the confluent CLI. This enables hybrid users to manage both Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud deployments with a single CLI. Demonstrates linking on-prem and cloud clusters and mirroring topics. Details context switching for managing different environments and provides an example workflow for hybrid users.

2020

Confluent CLI Reaches 1.0 for Cloud & Platform

6/1/2020

This post announces the v1.0 milestone for both the Confluent Cloud CLI (ccloud) and Confluent Platform CLI (confluent). It details key features of both CLIs, including CRUD operations for Kafka clusters, topics, service accounts, API keys, ACLs, connectors, Schema Registry, ksqlDB apps, and environments for Confluent Cloud. For on-prem, it highlights IAM features like RBAC and ACL management, file-based secret management, and cluster metadata discovery. New features introduced include machine-readable output (JSON, YAML) for scriptability and long-lived authentication via the --save flag, persisting credentials to ~/.netrc for automatic re-authentication. It also mentions upcoming features like integrating Confluent Cloud Metrics API and supporting RBAC management in the cloud.

2019

Using Apache Kafka Command Line Tools with Confluent Cloud | Confluent

1/25/2019

This post details how to use standard Apache Kafka command-line tools (kafka-console-producer, kafka-console-consumer, kafka-consumer-groups) with Confluent Cloud by configuring them with bootstrap servers, API keys, and secrets. It provides specific examples for producing and consuming messages, listing consumer groups, and describing consumer group offsets. It also includes guidance on network connectivity testing using netcat and discusses scenarios involving public internet and VPC peering.