Debezium How do I correctly register the SqlServer connector with Kafka Connect - connection refused

Question

Question:

How do I correctly register the SqlServer connector with Kafka Connect to connect to a standalone SQL Server Instance? Note: I am NOT running

Answer 1

The solution for a non-production environment is to use host.docker.internal. This is found on Docker's website here: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/networking/. See section titled I WANT TO CONNECT FROM A CONTAINER TO A SERVICE ON THE HOST. I will need to look into the Docker0 that is recommended in Jiri's answer.

The correct JSON is as follows:

{  
    "name": "LT-LS231-mssqlserver-connector",  
    "config": {
        "connector.class": "io.debezium.connector.sqlserver.SqlServerConnector", 
        "database.server.name": "staging", 
        "database.hostname": "host.docker.internal", 
        "database.port": "1433", 
        "database.user": "svc_kafka", 
        "database.password": "*********", 
        "database.dbname": "Test", 
        "table.whitelist": "dbo.Posts", 
        "database.history.kafka.bootstrap.servers": "kafka:9092", 
        "database.history.kafka.topic": "dbhistory.Posts" 
  }
}