Developer guidance on how to do local testing with Amazon MSK Serverless
Big Data Blog
This article provides guidance for developers to connect to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Serverless from their local development environment using an SSH tunnel and a bastion host.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview with an architecture diagram
- Prerequisites for setting up the solution
- Step-by-step instructions for configuring a local DNS server and resolver on macOS and Windows
- Steps for creating an SSH tunnel to the bastion host
- Testing the setup with a Kafka client using IAM authentication
- Cleanup steps to remove the solution
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