title: Kafka Sink to Data Lake Storage without Confluent
body: <p>I am trying to find options for Open Source Kafka writing directly to Azure Data Lake storage Gen2 . It seems I have few options and mostly circling around Confluent like below :</p>
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  <li><p>Use Confluent Cloud with Apache Kafka - Need to Subscribe with Confluent and pay charges (<a href="https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/connectors/cc-azure-datalakeGen2-storage-sink.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Confluent Cloud with ADLS</a></p>
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  <li><p>Use Azure VM with Confluent Hub and Install Confluent Platform</p>
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  <p>At present I am not wiling to pay Confluent licensing and not want to test with confluent package (more and more wrappers and hoops around)</p>
  <p>Any option to use Open source Kafka directly to write data to ADLS Gen2 ? If yes how can we achieve this any useful information to share ?</p>