Kafka Connector resource Manually STOP/START/RESTART

[imrohankataria]

Hi, Im using the KafkaConnector CRD and registering connectors using YAML files, not through REST API.

How to STOP connectors that I don't want to be running anymore?
Is there a way other than exposing REST API at 8083?

Any KUBECTL command that would do this? or YAML File changes?

I have tried deleting the connectors directly but they always show back in the available connectors list from config topics
Realized its important to manually stop the connectors first before deleting them.

[imrohankataria]

Answering to myself and tested

-- TO PAUSE / STOP / RESUME FROM PAUSE (Change value of pause and publish)

spec:
  pause: true
  autoRestart:
    enabled: true

-- To restart manually
kubectl annotate KafkaConnector <connector-name> strimzi.io/restart=true