Connecting to Redpanda does not require any previous configuration.
The ingestion of the Kafka topics' schema is done separately by configuring the **Schema Registry URL**. However, only the **Bootstrap Servers** information is mandatory.
- **Bootstrap Servers**: List of brokers as comma separated values of broker `host` or `host:port`. Example: `host1:9092,host2:9092`
- **Schema Registry URL**: URL of the Schema Registry used to ingest the schemas of the topics.
- **SASL Username**: SASL username for use with the PLAIN and SASL-SCRAM mechanisms.
- **SASL Password**: SASL password for use with the PLAIN and SASL-SCRAM mechanisms.
- **SASL Mechanism**: SASL mechanism to use for authentication.
- **Basic Auth User Info**: Schema Registry Client HTTP credentials in the form of `username:password`. By default, user info is extracted from the URL if present.
- **Consumer Config**: The accepted additional values for the consumer configuration can be found in the following [link](https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md).
- **Schema Registry Config**: The accepted additional values for the Schema Registry configuration can be found in the following [link](https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/clients/confluent-kafka-python/html/index.html#schemaregistryclient).