Kafka Connect is a tool for scalably and reliably streaming data between Apache Kafka and other systems. It makes it simple to quickly define connectors that move large collections of data into and out of Kafka. Kafka Connect can ingest entire databases or collect metrics from all your application servers into Kafka topics, making the data available for stream processing with low latency. An export job can deliver data from Kafka topics into secondary storage and query systems or into batch systems for offline analysis.
以上是官方描述
它包含：
1. 为Kafka提供一个通用框架
2.提供分布式和单机模式
3. 提供REST接口
4. 提供偏移量自动管理
5. 默认情况下是分布式和可扩展的
6. 流批一体
下期我们将继续介绍Kafka connect
