Kafka Security

Need to setup

• Authentication
• Authorization
• Encryption

References

Flashcards

If you enable an SSL endpoint in Kafka, what feature of Kafka will be lost?:: Zero copy. With SSL, messages will need to be encrypted and decrypted, by being first loaded into the JVM, so you lose the zero copy optimization.

What is not a valid authentication mechanism in Kafka?:: SAML

What is the protocol used by Kafka clients to securely connect to the Confluent REST Proxy?:: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) TLS - but it is still called SSL.