redpanda

The Redpanda Connect configuration service allows you to:

  • Configure Redpanda cluster credentials in a single configuration block, which is referenced by multiple components in data pipeline. For more information, see the Pipeline example.

  • Send logs and status updates to topics on a Redpanda cluster, in addition to the default logger.

The redpanda namespace contains the configuration of this service.

  • Common

  • Advanced

# Common configuration fields, showing default values
redpanda:
  seed_brokers: [] # No default (optional)
  pipeline_id: ""
  logs_topic: ""
  logs_level: info
  status_topic: ""
# All configuration fields, showing default values
redpanda:
  seed_brokers: [] # No default (optional)
  client_id: benthos
  tls:
    enabled: false
    skip_cert_verify: false
    enable_renegotiation: false
    root_cas: ""
    root_cas_file: ""
    client_certs: []
  sasl: [] # No default (optional)
  metadata_max_age: 50m
  pipeline_id: ""
  logs_topic: ""
  logs_level: info
  status_topic: ""
  partitioner: "" # No default (optional)
  idempotent_write: true
  compression: "" # No default (optional)
  timeout: 10s
  max_message_bytes: 1MB
  broker_write_max_bytes: 100MB

Pipeline example

This data pipeline reads data from topic_A and topic_B on a Redpanda cluster, and then writes the data to topic_C on the same cluster. The cluster details are configured within the redpanda configuration block, so you only need to configure them once. This is a useful feature when you have multiple inputs and outputs in the same data pipeline that need to connect to the same cluster.

input:
  redpanda_common:
    topics: [ topic_A, topic_B ]

output:
  redpanda_common:
    topic: topic_C
    key: ${! @id }

redpanda:
  seed_brokers: [ "127.0.0.1:9092" ]
  tls:
    enabled: true
  sasl:
    - mechanism: SCRAM-SHA-512
      password: bar
      username: foo

Fields

seed_brokers

A list of broker addresses to connect to in order. Use commas to separate multiple addresses in a single list item.

Type: array

# Examples

seed_brokers:
  - localhost:9092

seed_brokers:
  - foo:9092
  - bar:9092

seed_brokers:
  - foo:9092,bar:9092

client_id

An identifier for the client connection.

Type: string

Default: benthos

tls

Override system defaults with custom TLS settings.

Type: object

tls.enabled

Whether custom TLS settings are enabled.

Type: bool

Default: false

tls.skip_cert_verify

Whether to skip server-side certificate verification.

Type: bool

Default: false

tls.enable_renegotiation

Whether to allow the remote server to request renegotiation. Enable this option if you’re seeing the error message local error: tls: no renegotiation.

Type: bool

Default: false

Requires version 3.45.0 or newer

tls.root_cas

Specify a root certificate authority to use (optional). This is a string that represents a certificate chain from the parent trusted root certificate, through possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Example

root_cas: |-
  -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
  ...
  -----END CERTIFICATE-----

tls.root_cas_file

Specify the path to a root certificate authority file (optional). This is a file, often with a .pem extension, which contains a certificate chain from the parent trusted root certificate, through possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Example

root_cas_file: ./root_cas.pem

tls.client_certs

A list of client certificates to use. For each certificate, specify either the fields cert and key or cert_file and key_file.

Type: array

Default: []

# Examples

client_certs:
  - cert: foo
    key: bar

client_certs:
  - cert_file: ./example.pem
    key_file: ./example.key

tls.client_certs[].cert

The plain text certificate to use.

Type: string

Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].key

The plain text certificate key to use.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].cert_file

The path of a certificate to use.

Type: string

Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].key_file

The path of a certificate key to use.

Type: string

Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].password

The plain text password for when the private key is password encrypted in PKCS#1 or PKCS#8 format. The obsolete pbeWithMD5AndDES-CBC algorithm is not supported for the PKCS#8 format.

The pbeWithMD5AndDES-CBC algorithm does not authenticate ciphertext, and is vulnerable to padding Oracle attacks which may allow an attacker recover the plain text password.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Examples

password: foo

password: ${KEY_PASSWORD}

sasl

Specify one or more methods or mechanisms of SASL authentication. They are tried in order. If the broker supports the first SASL mechanism, all connections use it. If the first mechanism fails, the client picks the first supported mechanism. If the broker does not support any client mechanisms, all connections fail.

Type: array

# Example

sasl:
  - mechanism: SCRAM-SHA-512
    password: bar
    username: foo

sasl[].mechanism

The SASL mechanism to use.

Type: string

Option

Summary

AWS_MSK_IAM

AWS IAM-based authentication as specified by the aws-msk-iam-auth Java library.

OAUTHBEARER

OAuth Bearer-based authentication.

PLAIN

Plain text authentication.

SCRAM-SHA-256

SCRAM-based authentication as specified in RFC5802.

SCRAM-SHA-512

SCRAM-based authentication as specified in RFC5802.

none

Disable SASL authentication

sasl[].username

A username for PLAIN or SCRAM-* authentication.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].password

A password for PLAIN or SCRAM-* authentication.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].token

The token to use for a single session’s OAUTHBEARER authentication.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].extensions

Key/value pairs to add to OAUTHBEARER authentication requests.

Type: object

sasl[].aws

AWS specific fields for when the mechanism is set to AWS_MSK_IAM.

Type: object

sasl[].aws.region

The AWS region to target.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].aws.endpoint

Specify a custom endpoint for the AWS API.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].aws.credentials

Manually configure the AWS credentials to use (optional). For more information, see the Amazon Web Services guide.

Type: object

sasl[].aws.credentials.profile

The profile from ~/.aws/credentials to use.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].aws.credentials.id

The ID of the AWS credentials to use.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].aws.credentials.secret

The secret for the AWS credentials in use.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].aws.credentials.token

The token for the AWS credentials in use. This is a required value for short-term credentials.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].aws.credentials.from_ec2_role

Use the credentials of a host EC2 machine configured to assume an IAM role associated with the instance.

Type: bool

Default: false

Requires version 4.2.0 or newer

sasl[].aws.credentials.role

The role ARN to assume.

Type: string

Default: ""

sasl[].aws.credentials.role_external_id

An external ID to use when assuming a role.

Type: string

Default: ""

metadata_max_age

The maximum period of time after which metadata is refreshed.

Type: string

Default: 5m

pipeline_id

The ID of a Redpanda Connect data pipeline (optional). When specified, the pipeline ID is written to all logs and status updates sent to the configured topics.

Type: string

Default: ""

logs_topic

The topic that logs are sent to.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Example

logs_topic: __redpanda.connect.logs

logs_level

The logging level of logs sent to Redpanda.

Type: string

Default: info

Options: debug, info, warn, error

status_topic

The topic that status updates are sent to. For full details of the schema for status updates, see the object specification.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Example

status_topic: __redpanda.connect.status

partitioner

Override the default murmur2 hashing partitioner.

Type: string

Option Summary

least_backup

Chooses the least backed up partition. The partition with the fewest buffered records. Partitions are selected per batch.

manual

Manually select a partition for each message. You must also specify a value for the partition field.

murmur2_hash

Kafka’s default hash algorithm that uses a 32-bit murmur2 hash of the key to compute the partition for the record.

round_robin

Does a round robin of messages through all available partitions. This algorithm has lower throughput and causes higher CPU load on brokers, but is useful if you want to ensure an even distribution of records to partitions.

idempotent_write

Enable the idempotent write producer option. This requires the IDEMPOTENT_WRITE permission on CLUSTER. Disable this option if the IDEMPOTENT_WRITE permission is not available.

Type: bool

Default: true

compression

Set an explicit compression type (optional). The default preference is to use snappy when the broker supports it. Otherwise, use none.

Type: string

Options: lz4 , snappy , gzip , none , zstd

timeout

The maximum period of time allowed for sending log or status update messages before a request is abandoned and a retry attempted.

Type: string

Default: 10s

max_message_bytes

The maximum size of an individual message in bytes. Messages larger than this value are rejected. This field is equivalent to Kafka’s max.message.bytes.

Type: string

Default: 1MB

# Examples

max_message_bytes: 100MB

max_message_bytes: 50mib

broker_write_max_bytes

The upper bound for the number of bytes written to a broker connection in a single write. This field corresponds to Kafka’s socket.request.max.bytes.

Type: string

Default: "100MB"

# Examples

broker_write_max_bytes: 128MB

broker_write_max_bytes: 50mib