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This Message Hub example project relies on Message Hub credentials being stored in a file called vcap.json locally.

Edit the cell below to set the following variables:

kafka_brokers_sasl
user
password

The above values can be found by:

Login to the Bluemix console
Navigating to your Message Hub service instance
Click on service credentials
Click on view credentials

Finally create a Message Hub topic, and set the following variable:

topic

After setting up the variables below, Run the cell to save your credentials.



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%%bash

# save our credential details for kafka
cat << EOF > vcap.json
{
  "kafka_brokers_sasl": [
    "kafka05-prod01.messagehub.services.us-south.bluemix.net:9093",
    "kafka03-prod01.messagehub.services.us-south.bluemix.net:9093",
    "kafka04-prod01.messagehub.services.us-south.bluemix.net:9093",
    "kafka01-prod01.messagehub.services.us-south.bluemix.net:9093",
    "kafka02-prod01.messagehub.services.us-south.bluemix.net:9093"
  ],
  "user": "changeme",
  "password": "changeme",
  "topic": "changeme"
}
EOF