title: How to connect Kafka with Camel Spring Boot
body: <p>What options do I have for connecting Kafka with Spring Boot Camel?</p>
  <p>I'm running ActiveMQ Artemis and Camel to make JMS/MQTT and REST routes to/from clients.
  I would like to add Kafka to that duo to stream/exchange data (video+audio, files/text).</p>
  <p>So far I downloaded Kafka Confluent Platform (free trial) and I'm testing what they offer. In Confluent Platform I see it is possible to add connectors as a &quot;plugins&quot;. I assume that way I can add Camel connector but that seems bad solution to me because I would like to play with the routes and see what is under the hood and here I don't see that is possible, or am I wrong?</p>
  <p>Other option I'm thinking of, is to download Apache Kafka, Zookeeper, add Kafka Spring Boot dependency to Camel <code>pom.xml</code> and then make Camel routes like in samples <a href="https://camel.apache.org/components/latest/kafka-component.html#_consumer_headers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. Am I on the right track?</p>