Labs fans,
Today Cloudera announced the GA of integration between Kafka and Cloudera Enterprise 5 (meaning, you can now deploy Kafka alongside CDH using Cloudera Manager, and Kafka is now formally supported).
For all future questions/issues on this subject, use the Data Ingestion board:
http://community.cloudera.com/t5/Data-Ingestion-Integration/bd-p/SqoopFlume