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Run your first pipeline

Seed the demo database, create the platform resources, and watch change events land in Kafka. This is the point of everything above it.

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Seed the source database

The repository ships an e-commerce schema with customers, orders and products, for both PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Seeding is idempotent and can be re-run.

Create the platform resources

A scenario creates, in order, the four objects the Debezium Platform needs:

Object What it is
Connection Credentials and address of the source database
Source What to capture from that connection
Destination Where change events are written — here, Kafka
Pipeline Binds a source to a destination, optionally through transforms

Every object is created only if an object with the same deterministic name does not already exist, so re-running a scenario converges rather than duplicating.

Watch it work

Change a row in the source database and observe the corresponding event on the Kafka topic. The platform UI shows the same pipeline and its status.

Where next

  • Deploy it somewhere real: Guides
  • Understand what you just built: Concepts