One Way Kafka (or seperate ports for producers and consumers)

[Rick Richardson <ri...@gmail.com>]

Hey list,

I would like to use Kafka as an ingest point for sensitive data in a large
production network.  We would like to set it up in such a way that anyone
that wants can publish data through the brokers, but we want to restrict
access for consumers to just a small subset of machines.

I'm sure there are other solutions which might be better, so please let me
know if there is a way to do this, but one way I was considering is
allowing consumers to connect to one port, and producers to connect to
another, and doing the IP based access control with firewalls.

Thanks,
Rick