1. run migrations in django (manage.py migrate) 2. start zookeeper: docker run -it --rm --name zookeeper -p 2181:2181 -p 2888:2888 -p 3888:3888 debezium/zookeeper:0.5 3. Start kafka: docker run -it --rm --name kafka -p 9092:9092 --link zookeeper:zookeeper debezium/kafka:0.5 4. start Kafka Connect: docker run -it --rm --name connect -p 8083:8083\ -e GROUP_ID=1 -e CONFIG_STORAGE_TOPIC=my_connect_configs\ -e OFFSET_STORAGE_TOPIC=my_connect_offsets --link zookeeper:zookeeper --link kafka:kafka\ debezium/connect:0.5 5. Stop postgres (brew services stop postgresql), modify postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf as in the docs. Start postgres. Run migrations. I simply got the snapshot of /usr/local/var/postgres dir and attach here. You can stop postgres, remove /usr/local/var/postgres, untar at /usr/local/var/postgres, and restart postgres. DB user/password is naci/naci. 6. Add connector: curl -i -X POST -H "Accept:application/json" -H "Content-Type:application/json" localhost:8083/connectors/ -d @pg-test-connect-props.json 7. Insert a record to accounts_user table: INSERT INTO "accounts_user" ("password", "last_login", "is_superuser", "stripe_customer_id", "stripe_subscription_data", "subscription_status", "cancel_at_period_end", "cancel_date", "uuid", "created", "modified", "email", "first_name", "last_name", "image", "is_staff", "is_active", "date_joined", "facebook_access_token", "timezone", "phone", "zip_code", "allow_phi_in_emails", "last_opened", "google_auth_flow", "google_api_credentials") VALUES ('', NULL, false, NULL, NULL, 'canceled', false, NULL, '46b82ef3-52c7-4113-8a60-4dbd9f7cbca1'::uuid, '2017-04-17T19:43:54.722483+00:00'::timestamptz, '2017-04-17T19:43:54.722501+00:00'::timestamptz, 'naci20@test.com', 'naci', 'ishak', '', false, true, '2017-04-17T19:43:54.708325+00:00'::timestamptz, NULL, 'America/Los_Angeles', NULL, NULL, false, NULL, NULL, NULL) RETURNING "id";