How to copy or configure kafka connect plugin files?

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I have downloaded plugin files from https://www.confluent.io/connector/kafka-connect-cdc-microsoft-sql/,

It has three folders lib, etc, doc, manifest.json. etc has connect-avro-docker.properties, mssqlsource.properties, repro.properties. I can add CONNECT_PLUGIN_PATH to lib, but what about these config files?

In https://docs.confluent.io/current/connect/userguide.html page they did not give clear instructions on where to copy these files.

How to copy or configure kafka connect plugin files for confluent? Any direction is appreciated.

I installed only kafka-connect, schema-registry, kafka-broker, zookeeper. I didn't find a way to install hub on windows.

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you can just run confluent-hub install confluentinc/kafka-connect-cdc-mssql:1.0.0-preview to download and install the plugin. - Robin Moffatt

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The instructions are here

You need to point plugin.path line in the Connect properties to the absoulte path of the extracted lib folder - the parent folder of where the JARs are located.

You can also use confluent-hub tool, which should set this all up for you.