Getting Started with Confluent Cloud Networking

Confluent’s free Cloud Networking course is designed for both networking specialists and general practitioners, covering foundational concepts such as IP addresses, DNS, CIDR ranges, and cloud virtual networks across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It helps learners assess what services need connectivity, where connections originate, and whether private networking is required, then explains Confluent Cloud options including secure public endpoints, VPC/VNet peering, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS/Azure PrivateLink, with Google Cloud Private Service Connect noted as an early-access alternative. The course compares these approaches based on security, implementation complexity, address-space requirements, scalability, compliance needs, and cost, while hands-on labs demonstrate configuring clusters, generating and consuming data, and connecting AWS VPC resources. It concludes with a review of connectivity tradeoffs and an overview of Confluent Cloud’s control-plane and data-plane components.

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