Sending data to a Kafka topic
This scenario aims at helping you set up and use connectors in a pipeline. You are advised to adapt it to your environment and use case.
![Example of a pipeline created from the instructions below.](/en-US/connectors-guide/Cloud/Content/Resources/images/kafka-pipeline.png)
Before you begin
- If you want to reproduce this scenario, download and extract the file: test-file-to-kafka.zip .
Procedure
Results
Your pipeline is being executed, the movie data from your test file has been processed and the output flow is sent to the collette_movies_json topic you have defined.
What to do next
Once the data is published, you can consume the content of the topic in another pipeline and use it as a source:
![A new pipeline where the source is the collette kafka topic from the previous destination pipeline.](/en-US/connectors-guide/Cloud/Content/Resources/images/kafka-pipeline-consume.png)
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