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Additional connectivity to data sources

In addition to connecting to your data sources directly, Atlan also supports connecting through:

AWS PrivateLink creates a secure, private connection between services running in AWS:

Azure Private Link creates a secure, private connection between services running in Azure:

Connect via private service connect​

Private Service Connect creates a secure, private connection between services running in Google Cloud Platform:

Docker-based offline extraction​

Sunsetting notice

This job execution mode is scheduled for deprecation on June 30, 2026. For new implementations, use Self-deployed runtime. If you have existing setups, contact your Account team to plan your migration.

Atlan supports the offline extraction method for fetching metadata from supported sources. First extract the metadata yourself and then make it available in S3.

For offline extraction, Atlan uses the following:

  • Base image - Ubuntu for SQL-based extraction, Alpine Linux for REST API extraction.
  • Programming language - Kotlin for SQL sources, Python for BI sources and event buses.

Databases​

BI tools​

Data movement tools​

Event buses​

Miners​

S3 miner​

Kubernetes-based offline extraction​

Sunsetting notice

This job execution mode is scheduled for deprecation on June 30, 2026. For new implementations, use Self-deployed runtime. If you have existing setups, contact your Account team to plan your migration.

Refer to How to connect on-premises databases to Kubernetes, and then request sample ConfigMap and CronJob files for the following supported SQL connectors:

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL