I was asking that exactly. Thank you ;) 2017-02-01 20:39 GMT+01:00 Hans Jespersen <h...@confluent.io>:
> If you are asking if technically does Kafka Connect need the entire Apache > Kafka distribution to run then, then the answer is no, it does not because > Connectors just remotely connect to Kafka Brokers on separate machines. > > If you are asking if there is a separate distribution for a “connect node” > that pre-packages only the jars and scripts needed to run Kafka Connect and > not any of the other Kafka components then the answer is unfortunately no > at this time, you need to download and install the entire Kafka > distribution in order to get the bits needed to run Kafka Connect. > > -hans > > > > > > On Feb 1, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Guillermo Ortiz <konstt2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Is it possible to use Kafka Connect in nodes where isn't Kafka > installed? I > > can't see on the documentation anything about installed in others nodes. > >
