This article aims to explain the steps to coupling Confluent Schema Registry with existed/operational multi-broker Apache Kafka cluster(Local deployment). The Confluent is an integrated platform bundle with Apache Kafka and multiple different components starting from ksqlDB for stream processing, numerous connectors (Database, File, AWS, Azure, Google, etc), Schema Registry, Control Center, etc. Please click here to know more about the Confluent Platform.
In short, Schema Registry preserves a versioned history of all schemas, provides multiple compatibility settings, allows the evolution of schemas, etc. It supports Avro, JSON Schema, and Protobuf schemas. Can read here about the importance of Schema Registry on Kafka Based Data Pipelines