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Note: In versions before CDAP 6.5.0, you create connections when you create a pipeline or before wrangling data. Data scientists and ETL developers provide credentials (such as the connection IP, port, and password) each time they create a pipeline. In versions 6.5.0 and later, Admins can instead create and manage the connections for data pipelines, and developers can use these connections without needing to provide credentials.
You In Wrangler, you can also add, edit, export, duplicate, and delete connections from the Wrangler and from supported plugins in the Pipeline Studio for each namespace. In Pipeline Studio, you can add and import connections for supported plugins for each namespace.
Note: Connections are required to browse data and tables for plugins that support connections.
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