Creating and using a custom kafka connect configuration provider
问题 I have installed and tested kafka connect in distributed mode, it works now and it connects to the configured sink and reads from the configured source. That being the case, I moved to enhance my installation. The one area I think needs immediate attention is the fact that to create a connector, the only available mean is through REST calls, this means I need to send my information through the wire, unprotected. In order to secure this, kafka introduced the new ConfigProvider seen here. This